Compatibility problem ??

[Volker Gaibler]

On 12 Mar 2002, at 22:14, Werner Koch wrote:
> Another reason for this might be that the key has been retrieved from
> a keyserver and the keyserver removed the (encryption) subkeys due to
> a bug. 
On 12 Mar 2002, at 10:01, Steve Butler wrote:
> You're message almost sounds like you sent them a public key that can only
> sign but not encrypt. 

Thanks for your hints. A keyserver problem is not possible because I did not 
use a keyserver (I first wanted to try this with a test key without spreading 
it). 

I think I have an answer despite I don't really know whether I did something 
wrong. The ElGamal subkey is present (for encryption only) but there is also a 
DSA subkey. GPG has no problems with that subkey but I think PGP 6/7 (which 
I've tried) can't handle it because everything worked after I removed it. 

As I read in the OpenPGP-RFC it should be compliant to have such DSA subkey but 
it's no problem that I can't use it because I didn't want to do this later 
anyway. Only the top level key provides signature services so this should not 
be of any practical use to me - or is it?

Volker



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