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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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