GPG W32 1.0.6-2 - PRIVATE KEY IMPORT ISSUE

Mannini Matteo duemme at gmail.com
Thu Nov 29 10:49:39 CET 2012


I'm now running version 1.4.9 and everything works just fine.
Thank you.

Matteo

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:29, duemme at gmail.com said:
>
> > I downloaded GPG W32 1.0.6-2 on a Windows machine.
>
> This is a 11 years old version og GnuPG!  You should not use it at all.
> The cuirrent version is 1.4.12 and a simple installer is available at
>
>   ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32cli-1.4.12.exe
>
> > import:
> > gpg --allow-secret-key-import "secdretkey.txt"
>
> --allow-secret-ket-import is only an option but not a command.  Thus gpg
> will try to decrypt what is in secdretkey.txt - which is not possible -
> it will thus only show you the content of the file.
>
> Use
>
>   gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import "secdretkey.txt"
>
> but please update to a modern and supported version first (then you
> don't need the --allow-secret-key-import anymore).
>
>
> Shalom-Salam,
>
>    Werner
>
> --
> Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
>
>
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