Re: ElGamal key restriction

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:04:04PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> According to http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-step2 , ElGamal keys
> generated by gnupg versions prior to 1.0.2 are not acceptable.  I
> haven't been able to find a justification for this restriction in the
> mailing list archives, debian-keyring, or the ChangeLog and NEWS files
> of gnupg.  Would someone please explain (or direct me to) the reasons
> for this requirement?

Bug in gnupg << 1.0.2.  Explained by a mail from James Troup to the
-admin list about a month ago.  (Was that pre-archiving?)

   Julian

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