On Saturday 24 January 2009 17:50:49 David Shaw wrote: > On Jan 24, 2009, at 3:19 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 24 January 2009 04:59:29 David Shaw wrote: > >> On Jan 23, 2009, at 5:17 AM, rahul kaushik wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> I have an issue which is described below: > >>> > >>> earlier i was using Gnupg-1.0.6 for my appliaction. Now i have > >>> replaced it > >>> with Gnupg-1.4.9. > >>> I am facing some issue related to keyrings. As per my application. > >>> I need to perform following application. > >>> > >>> I did finally get these encrypt/decrypt procedures to work: > >>> > >>> gpg (1.0.6) for encryption followed by gpg (1.4.9) for decryption > >>> gpg (1.4.9) for encryption followed by gpg (1.0.6) for > >>> decryption > >>> > >>> But for that i have to use same ( gnupg-1.0.6 ) keyrings file for > >>> both > >>> situations. > >> > >> In the GPG tarball, in the "tools" directory, there is a script > >> "convert-from-106". Run it, and you should be in better shape. > > > > Is this something that all of us with old keyrings need to do? If > > so, can you > > please either point us to instructions that a user could follow, or > > explain > > how to do it? Thanks. > > If "old" is 1.0.6 (circa 2001), and you haven't used any version of > GPG after 1.0.6 (i.e. you just upgraded from 1.0.6 to 1.4.9 like the > original poster) then you just need to run the convert-from-106 > script. There aren't any instructions beyond that. The script takes > care of the various changes for you. > > If you're not sure what to do, run it. There is no harm in running it > when it is not needed. > Thanks for replying. I didn't realise that we were talking of such a big time-span. I think I started using gpg around 2003, but I've been updating my distros fairly regularly since then, so it looks as though it's unnecessary for me.
Anne
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