kmail doesn t sign/encrypt e-mails, broken pipe

[Erik Wasser]

On Sunday 14 November 2004 23:41, Ingo Klöcker wrote:

> A user ID connects a key and its owner. Usually it contains the key
> owner's name and his email address. If a user ID is not self-signed
> then it could have been added by anyone to the key. I think some very
> old versions of PGP created user IDs without self-signature. You have
> to ask the key owner to sign his user ID if you want to use the key.

I played a little bit with PGP810 for windows. This version can create 
three different versions of key pairs.

1) Diffie-Hellmann/DSS (standard)
2) RSA
3) RSA-Legacy

The first two are no problem (I'm talking about importing the public key 
into GPG). But the third one is the problem here. It gives me the old 
error code:

Secure memory is not locked into core
gpg: NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION!
gpg: It is only intended for test purposes and should NOT be
gpg: used in a production environment or with production keys!
gpg: key 1DE27EF7: no valid user IDs
gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:           w/o user IDs: 1

Is this is PGP or an GPG issue? Is this key just too legacy or is gpg 
just to new? Can I update the PGP key so it will have this user ID?

The FAQ from GNUPG[1] says to GnuPG and RSA the following: "RSA is 
included as of GnuPG version 1.0.3." Does this yes-to-RSA-statement 
includes 'RSA-legacy' keys?

Comments? Ideas? B-)

[1]http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html#q3.3

-- 
So long... Fuzz