Re: gpg couldn't import pgp keys
Julian Gilbey wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:20:02PM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote:
> > Greetings: God bless you.
> >
> > I tried to import the debian-keyring.pgp, and gpg
> > complained about each key, for example:
> >
> > gpg: key C4A8525B: unsupported public key algorithm ...
> Install gpg-rsa (or gpg-rsaref in USA) and gpg-idea (both in
> non-US/non-free), and add: ...
Josip Rodin wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:20:02PM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote:
> > ...
> > gpg: key C4A8525B: unsupported public key algorithm
> >
> > Is the problem that the pgp keys use the RSA or IDEA algorithms?
>
> Perhaps. You can get RSA and IDEA plugins from non-US/non-free section,
> package names are gpg-rsa and gpg-idea.
Julian, Josip, thank you. I encountered a challenge reconfiguring
the apt get method of dselect to obtain access to this section,
having to actually ftp to non-us.debian.org to learn the directory
structure,
but I succeeded, and imported all the keys in keyring.pgp, except
6 out of the 507, which, I think, weren't signed.
Now to make that application...
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