Importing old PGP key

2008-08-13 Thread Kiss Gabor (Bitman)
I have the same problem as was answered by David Shaw in 2004: http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.gnupg.users/2004-06/msg00022.html (Converting a vry old PGP key (2.6.3ia) to GnuPG.) However the method he suggested does not work for me: $ gpg --s2k-cipher-algo cast5 --edit-key 0x5D144299 gpg (GnuPG)

Re: Importing old PGP key

2008-08-13 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Kiss Gabor (Bitman) wrote: What should I do? I'd start by asking whether you really need that key. 512-bit RSA is nowhere near modern standards of sufficiency; it is quite likely that in just a few years such keys will be able to be broken by motivated high school students. RSA-512 is grossly

Re: [GnuPG-users] Importing old PGP key

2008-08-13 Thread Kiss Gabor (Bitman)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd start by asking whether you really need that key. 512-bit RSA is nowhere near modern standards of sufficiency; it is quite likely that in just a few years such keys will be able to be broken by motivated high school students. This key is to

Re: [GnuPG-users] Importing old PGP key

2008-08-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If this cannot be done by my self in one hour then I figure out what is the cost of changing the key. Use pgp to set the passphrase to empty, then export the secret key and import it in gpg. If you like add a new passphrase using gpg

Re: Importing old PGP key

2008-08-13 Thread vedaal
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:54:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Kiss Gabor (Bitman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Importing old PGP key I have the same problem as was answered by David Shaw in 2004: http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.gnupg.users/2004-06/msg00022.html (Converting a vry old PGP key (2.6.3ia