Re: Importing my keys fails

2006-11-30 Thread Joseph Oreste Bruni
On Nov 30, 2006, at 6:23 AM, Michael Erskine wrote: My limited understanding was that symetric keys were just a pair of fancy numbers! :) Sorry, I meant asymmetric keys of course :) Regards, Michael Erskine. The keys themselves are similar at a basic level. But the packaging and data

Re: Importing my keys fails

2006-11-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Can they be somehow integrated or will I always need two (or more) sets of > keys? Are the keys used by OpenSSH in themselves somehow less secure or is > there something in their nature that means they can never be used by OpenPGP? It is all

Re: Importing my keys fails

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Erskine
On Thursday 30 November 2006 11:52, Michael Erskine wrote: > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 21:33, Joseph Bruni wrote: > > An OpenSSH key is not an OpenPGP key. There are some efforts to use > > OpenPGP keys for SSH authentication, however. Hmm, yes I found a reference to this actually being implem

Re: Importing my keys fails

2006-11-30 Thread Alphax
Michael Erskine wrote: > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 21:33, Joseph Bruni wrote: >> An OpenSSH key is not an OpenPGP key. There are some efforts to use OpenPGP >> keys for SSH authentication, however. > > Can they be somehow integrated or will I always need two (or more) sets of > keys? Are the

Re: Importing my keys fails

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Erskine
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 21:33, Joseph Bruni wrote: > An OpenSSH key is not an OpenPGP key. There are some efforts to use OpenPGP > keys for SSH authentication, however. Can they be somehow integrated or will I always need two (or more) sets of keys? Are the keys used by OpenSSH in themselve

Re: Importing my keys fails

2006-11-29 Thread Joseph Bruni
An OpenSSH key is not an OpenPGP key. There are some efforts to use OpenPGP keys for SSH authentication, however. -Original Message- >From: Michael Erskine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 29, 2006 7:35 AM >To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org >Subject: Importing my keys fails >

Importing my keys fails

2006-11-29 Thread Michael Erskine
Hi all, I have a pair of existing keys that I've used for ssh over the past few years and I'd like to use them with gnupg and gpg-enabled mailers etc. but they won't import for some reason: - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.ssh$ gpg --import id_dsa gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. gpg: Total number proce