Importing my keys fails

Alphax alphasigmax at gmail.com
Thu Nov 30 13:13:06 CET 2006


Michael Erskine wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 21:33, Joseph Bruni wrote:
>> An OpenSSH key is not an OpenPGP key. There are some efforts to use OpenPGP
>> keys for SSH authentication, however.
> 
> Can they be somehow integrated or will I always need two (or more) sets of 
> keys? Are the keys used by OpenSSH in themselves somehow less secure or is 
> there something in their nature that means they can never be used by OpenPGP? 
> My limited understanding was that symetric keys were just a pair of fancy 
> numbers! :)
> 

Since I can't be bothered explaining, here are some links that will do
it for me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html
http://sixdemonbag.org/cryptofaq.html

-- 
                Alphax
        Death to all fanatics!
  Down with categorical imperative!
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