unknown decryption error messages
Hunter, Bryan
Bryan_Hunter at archway.com
Wed May 5 17:16:53 CEST 2004
Hi:
In trying to move a PGP 6.0.2 key pair to GnuPG 1.2.1, I get a variety of
errors with various attempts at decryption of a test file which was also
encrypted with GnuPG. This is using GPG under Windows 98SE and is part of a
package, but the errors are duplicable calling GPG from the command prompt.
gpg: onepass_sig with unknown version 201
gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=43)
gpg: mpi too large (56839 bits)
Any information on options or procedures that should be used when importing
an old PGP key would be appreciated. Some detail follows.
--list-secret-keys --verbose
sec 1024D/E7F90291 2004-05-04 abc <abc>
ssb 2048g/CF8E4F56 2004-05-04
--list-keys --verbose
pub 1024D/E7F90291 2004-05-04 abc <abc>
sig E7F90291 2004-05-04 abc <abc>
sub 2048g/CF8E4F56 2004-05-04
sig E7F90291 2004-05-04 abc <abc>
The encryption generates:
gpg: using secondary key CF8E4F56 instead of primary key E7F90291
gpg: using secondary key CF8E4F56 instead of primary key E7F90291
gpg: abc: skipped: public key already present
gpg: using secondary key CF8E4F56 instead of primary key E7F90291
gpg: No trust check due to --always-trust option
gpg: abc: skipped: public key already present
gpg: reading from `C:\xxx\SYSTESTD.TXT'
gpg: writing to `C:\xxx\SYSTES~1.PGP'
gpg: ELG-E/CAST5 encrypted for: "CF8E4F56 abc <abc>"
Best Regards,
Bryan Hunter
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