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Re: PGP vs. GPG



Hi Jure!

On Tue, 02 May 2000, Jure Mercun wrote:

> I don't have a lot of experiences with
> PGP and GPG but it seems that PGP doesn't
> recognize GPG's keys and vice versa. Is
> there some way, to make a key that would
> work on both?

GPG cannot handle RSA keys (pgp 2.6.x) out of the box. Install
gpg-{rsa,idea} (non-US/non-free)

Even then GPG does create messages readable with pgp2.6.x. There is a
tool called gpg2-comp[0]. Didn't work for me, YMMV.

DSA keys (introduced with pgp5) are no problems for GPG.


					yours,
					peter

 0. http://muppet.faveve.uni-stuttgart.de/~gero/gpg-2comp/

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