Mailing List Archive: failing to import PGP 5.0 key

failing to import PGP 5.0 key

Andreas.Schamanek at univie

Apr 21, 2000, 3:32 PM

Post #1 of 7 (1427 views)

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Hi GnuPGs,

I am fairly new to this list, so you might want to get your flame
throwers ready ;->

My problem: I want to send a message to somebody who offers a PGP 5.0
key and I only have GnuPG.

To encrypt a message I have to import the key. But that does not work.
There is that documentation at www.gnupg.org about interoperation with
PGP 5.0 but, unfortunately, the text says nothing about importing keys.

Detailed output:

# gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1
Copyright (C) 1999 (...)

Supported algorithms:
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, TWOFISH
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160

# gpg --debug --import < tmp.pub
gpg: reading options from `/uhome/schamane/.gnupg/options'
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: processing message failed: eof

I have attached the key that I want to import.
MTIA,

- -- Andreas

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Re: failing to import PGP 5.0 key [ In reply to ]

ino-waiting at gmx

Apr 22, 2000, 11:33 AM

Post #2 of 7 (1422 views)

On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Andreas Schamanek wrote:

> # gpg --version
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1
> Copyright (C) 1999 (...)
>
> Supported algorithms:
> Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, TWOFISH
> Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160

WHERE DID YOU GET THIS GPG VERSION FROM? mine says:
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1
Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Supported algorithms:
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, TWOFISH
Pubkey: ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160

--
ino-waiting@gmx.net

Re: failing to import PGP 5.0 key [ In reply to ]

Apr 22, 2000, 12:27 PM

Post #3 of 7 (1427 views)

Fischer, at 20:33 +0200 on Sat, 22 Apr 2000, wrote:

> WHERE DID YOU GET THIS GPG VERSION FROM? mine says:
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1
> Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> Supported algorithms:
> Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, TWOFISH
> Pubkey: ELG-E, DSA, ELG
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160

If what you are asking is how that person got RSA and IDEA enabled, you
can find the dynamically-loadable modules at

ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/pub/gcrypt/contrib/

Documentation on how to use them is described in the header of the source.

--
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/

"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus

Re: failing to import PGP 5.0 key [ In reply to ]

ino-waiting at gmx

Apr 22, 2000, 4:37 PM

Post #4 of 7 (1420 views)

On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:

> If what you are asking is how that person got RSA and IDEA enabled, you
> can find the dynamically-loadable modules at
>
> ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/pub/gcrypt/contrib/
>
> Documentation on how to use them is described in the header of the source.

au weia. warum weiss ich sowas nie? how come i dont know about such
things? went to ftp.gnupg.org/..., picked up idea.c and rsa.c, read the
license declarations, the compilation procedures, did as told, and:

Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, TWOFISH
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG

but of course, whenever things improve, people want more. i'm no
different. how do i _generate_ rsa's? not that it matters much, i can
always use pgp(263i|5i) for that, but then, the sources include the
facility, i just cannot tell gpg 1.0.1 to use it. or can i? the day
will come when rsa is no longer the least common denominator, and decent
people will generate what god made them for, but will i live to see my
nephew type|say "gpg --gen-key rsa"? well. september 20th, 2000.

> <

to put it shortly: thanks for the info, frank.

--
ino-waiting@gmx.net

Re: failing to import PGP 5.0 key [ In reply to ]

johanw at vulcan

Apr 23, 2000, 4:24 AM

Post #5 of 7 (1422 views)

Fischer wrote:

> how do i _generate_ rsa's?

With pgp 2.63i, or wait until spetember when the RSA patent expires for this
functionality to appear in gpg.

--
ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site:
johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html

Re: failing to import PGP 5.0 key [ In reply to ]

johanw at vulcan

Apr 23, 2000, 3:14 PM

Post #6 of 7 (1425 views)

Trevor Smith wrote:

> Out of curiousity, is the RSA add-on being worked on now

I don't know.

>Or does the law demand that no work on it is even possible without a
>license (while it is still patented)?

The RSA patent is not valid in germany, where Werner lives, so he doesn't
have to care about that patent anyway.

--
ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site:
johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html

Re: failing to import PGP 5.0 key [ In reply to ]

Disastry at saiknes

Apr 27, 2000, 4:59 AM

Post #7 of 7 (1419 views)

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> For what it's worth, PGP (6.5.2 and 7.0) doesn't import this key either.
> L. Sassaman

probably because there is only 4 "-" before BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK
if i add 5th it imports

> > To encrypt a message I have to import the key. But that does not work.
> > .....
> > gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> > gpg: processing message failed: eof
> >
> > I have attached the key that I want to import.
> > -- Andreas

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