Import PGP Secret Keys

[Simon H. Garlick]

On 1/2/07, John Rowan <jrowan at cox.net> wrote:
> I need to import public and private keys created by PGP 8.0.  GnuPG allows
> me to import the PGP keys, but it imports all of them as public keys.  I
> tried to run > gpg --import --allow-secret-key-import " <filename> ", but it
> still imported the PGP private key as a public key in GnuPG.  Am I missing
> something here?  Ultimately, I need to be able to read files encrypted by
> PGP without having to generate new keys to do so.  I must use the existing
> keys.  At some point, I will need to also encrypt files using these same
> keys.  Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> John


First things first -- are you sure you're exporting the private keys
from PGP 8 correctly? I ask because it's something obvious that I've
forgotten to do more than once.



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