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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Mohammad Z.Oskuie wrote:

> It seems that this software (PGP-6.5.2 for win) knows GnuPG generated Public
^^^
You mean MS-Windows is a winning software - I don't think so :-)

> Keys well but can not import secret keys!

See doc/FAQ

gpg --export-secret-keys --no-comment -a foo >foo.asc


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Thank you.
The secret key can now be imported successfully, but PGP does not recognize
the correct passphrase!

Mohammad

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-----Original Message-----
From: Werner Koch [mailto:wk@gnupg.de]On Behalf Of Werner Koch
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 4:02 PM
To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Subject: Re: PGP-6.5.2


On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Mohammad Z.Oskuie wrote:

> It seems that this software (PGP-6.5.2 for win) knows GnuPG generated
Public
^^^
You mean MS-Windows is a winning software - I don't think so :-)

> Keys well but can not import secret keys!

See doc/FAQ

gpg --export-secret-keys --no-comment -a foo >foo.asc


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Werner Koch at guug.de www.gnupg.org keyid 621CC013

Boycott Amazon! - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html

What I did to export a secret key from GPG 1.0.1 (Linux) to PGP 6.5.1i
(Linux) is

gpg --s2k-cipher-algo=CAST5 --s2k-digest-algo=SHA1 --compress-algo=1
--edit-key keyid

> passwd
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Michael C Taylor <mctaylor@glyphmetrics.ca>"
1024-bit DSA key, ID 56B435B4, created 1999-09-09

Enter the new passphrase for this secret key.

[hit enter twice]

You don't want a passphrase - this is probably a *bad* idea!

Do you really want to do this? y


gpg --export-secret-key --no-comment -a keyid >keyid_secert.asc

pgp -ka keyid_secert.asc

wipe keyid_secert.asc
wipe keyid_secert.asc



[Now restore passphrases!!]

pgp -ke keyid
gpg --edit-key keyid
> passwd
> save



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