old pgp2.6x keys imported in gpg (compile pgp 2.6)

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 01/28/2014 03:37 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a problem to import my secret key into a iOS app called
> iPGmail.
> 
> The problem is that of course the key is password protected and the
> app seem to have difficulties with the password.

...

> 
> However the key was originally generated with pgp 2.6.2 more than
> 10 years ago (yes I know it is only 1024 bit long and should not be
> used anymore), but could it be that such a key has some
> incompatibilities with RFC 4880??


I seem to recall a similar issue when first trying to use an old PGP
2.6 key to decrypt some files due to two leading checksum bytes.
Looking through my archive [0,1] seems to confirm this, so might be of
some help for you as well.

[0] http://www.kfwebs.com/gnupg-2.0.4-idea.patch
[1] http://www.kfwebs.net/articles/article/42/GnuPG-2.0---IDEA-support

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Public PGP key 0xE3EDFAE3 at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
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Acta est fabula
So ends the story
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