Can a new version use old keys?

Atom 'Smasher' atom at suspicious.org
Fri Oct 15 16:56:33 CEST 2004


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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Pip Jones wrote:

> I've recently been forced to upgrade from 1.0.6 to 1.2.1 and am having 
> trouble decrypting. Do I need to regenerate the keys or should the old 
> keys still work in the new version?
>
> I'm encrypting on Linux and decrypting on Windows, something which has 
> been working fine for years with 1.0.6.
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check out the man page and other docs about "--rebuild-keydb-caches".


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