Importing my keys fails

[Joseph Bruni]

An OpenSSH key is not an OpenPGP key. There are some efforts to use OpenPGP keys for SSH authentication, however.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Erskine <msemtd at yahoo.co.uk>
>Sent: Nov 29, 2006 7:35 AM
>To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
>Subject: Importing my keys fails
>
>Hi all,
>
>I have a pair of existing keys that I've used for ssh over the past few years 
>and I'd like to use them with gnupg and gpg-enabled mailers etc. but they 
>won't import for some reason: -
>
>michael at fs1:~/.ssh$ gpg --import id_dsa
>gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
>gpg: Total number processed: 0
>
>My private key looks like this...
>
>-----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY-----
>Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
>DEK-Info: DES-EDE3-CBC,A953971238701254
>
><blah,blah,blah>
>
>-----END DSA PRIVATE KEY-----
>
>...and my public key is a single line beginning "ssh-dss ". Neither of them 
>will import so I'm assuming they're either incompatible with my openpgp or I 
>need to cast some magic to get them to work. Here's my version...
>
>michael at fs1:~/.ssh$ gpg --version
>gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.3
>Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
>
>Home: ~/.gnupg
>Supported algorithms:
>Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
>Cypher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
>Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512
>Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Regards,
>Michael Erskine.
>
>
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