I create a new key yesterday using gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.9 (Ubuntu 9.10), selecting all the defaults, without changing my preferences file first.
I exported the public key (ascii armored), no other options, and mailed it to a contact. They checked the key with PGP (sorry, don't know what version), and got this output, % pgpk -ll 'Tony Evans' Type Bits KeyID Created Expires Algorithm Use pub 1024 0x4250AA8D 2010-03-24 ---------- DSS Sign & Encrypt f20 Fingerprint20 = 73F0 396D 7EC5 0FBE CEB9 B1D0 1E90 79EB 4250 AA8D sub 2048 0x9CCCB946 2010-03-24 ---------- Diffie-Hellman f20 Fingerprint20 = 7B88 74DE C64A 98B1 22E8 8FE4 28EA B0A5 9CCC B946 uid Tony Evans <email address removed> sig 0x00000000 2010-03-24 (Unknown signator, can't be checked) 1 matching key found The Unknown signator bit is the worrying part. I've checked my key with gpg and it believes it to be self-signed correctly. Did I get something wrong, should I have done something different on the export, or is it just a compatibility issue with PGP (I know, hard to comment without knowing exactly which version). Command> check uid Tony Evans <t...@darkstorm.co.uk> sig!3 4250AA8D 2010-03-24 [self-signature] -- Tony Evans Saving trees and wasting electrons since 1993 blog -> http://perceptionistruth.com/ books -> http://www.bookthing.co.uk/ [ anything below this line wasn't written by me ] _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users