same key: pgp 2.6 version and gpg version: keyserver

Uwe Brauer oub at mat.ucm.es
Thu Jul 21 22:57:37 CEST 2005


>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Palfrader
>>>>> <gnupg-users=gnupg.org at lists.palfrader.org> writes:

    Peter> It's still the same public key.


    Peter> [Tho really you should create a new version 4 key.  Version 3 (old pgp
    Peter> 2.6 keys) are obsolete and support for them may eventually go away (the
    Peter> sooner the better)]

Well the problem is that my 2.6 key is already around, that I have a
lot messages already encrypted with this key (I know gpg cannot
decrypt it even with the imported key.) I want backward compatibility
as much as I can have.

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