Re: ElGamal key restriction
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 11:28:31PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 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?)
No it wasn't. I've just resent it so it is (hopefully) archived.
If so then Sano can put in a link to the message I guess.
Anand
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