Mailing List Archive: How to deal with old RSA keys

>>>>> "Lyman" == Lyman Hazelton <lrh@alum.mit.edu> writes:

Lyman> But I have an old RSA key that's been kicking around for a
Lyman> long time and I didn't have a die-date on it. I still want
Lyman> to be able to get messages written to me with this key. Is
Lyman> there a module that I can add to gnupg that will allow me
Lyman> to do this? Not everyone is switching to gpg and I still
Lyman> need to hear from them in private.

This should really be a FAQ.

If you're using Debian GNU/Linux, then all you need to do is install
the packages `gpg-rsaref' and `gpg-idea'. Then add these lines to
~/.gnupg/options:

load-extension rsa
load-extension idea

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El vie, 19 de may de 2000, a las 02:12:55 -0700, Eric Hanchrow dijo:
>
> This should really be a FAQ.

Not a FAQ, but a document on its own:

http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/pgp2x/x23.html

>
> If you're using Debian GNU/Linux, then all you need to do is install
> the packages `gpg-rsaref' and `gpg-idea'. Then add these lines to
> ~/.gnupg/options:
>
> load-extension rsa
> load-extension idea
>
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> PGP Fingerprint: 3E7B A3F3 96CA 8958 ACC5 C8BD 6337 0041 C01C 5276
>
>
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