On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 07:46:44PM +0000, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> >>>>> "David" == David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>     David> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:21:13PM +0000, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>     >> >>>>> "David" == David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>     >> 
>     David> On Thu, Jul  21, 2005 at  04:18:00PM +0000, Uwe Brauer
>     David> wrote: There is only one version of the key whether it
>     David> is in  PGP  or GPG.  Go ahead  and  submit it to  any
>     David> keyserver you like.
>     >> 
>     David> David
>     >> 
>     >> I am confused.  From what I read pgp 2.6 and gpg are not compatible, 
>     >> see
>     >> <http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/pgp2x.html> [1]
>     >> I cannot as a gpg user use the pgp public key in order to send a
>     >> message. 
>     >> Do you agree?
> 
>     David> No.
> 
> Aha, I asked some weeks ago about how to import my pgp 2.6 to gpg,
> because following the rules mentioned above
> gpg --import private.pgp 
> and the alike did NOT work, that is I used the imported key and tried
> to send myself a message using enigmail and failed, 
> the reason seems to be IDEA (well you can compile IDEA support into
> gpg however this is not standard.)
> 
> See the messages:
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> and especially 
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Where Werner advice to empty the pass-phrase in pgp2.6 import it to gpg
> and then introduce a pass-phrase.
> 
> So I conclude from that that a pgp2.6 with IDEA protected pass-phrase
> is NOT the same as the imported key into gpg, where the pass phrase is
> protected by other algorithm.

You changed the secret key.  The public key is the one that goes on
the keyserver and is exactly the same between PGP and GPG.

David

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