Re: [mv] PGP key trouble

[Ed LaFrance <newmedia@newmediaems.com>]

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I found PGP a bit confusing the first time I set it up as well.

You are on the right track.  Once you have set up your keypair on the 
server and made the public one the default signor, you need to get the 
secret key into the machine that is going to decode the encrypted 
attachments.  I ended up exporting both the public and secret keys from the 
server, then moving those files to the receiving machine and importing them 
into the keyring on that machine.

The syntax for the export was very specific.  I don't remember it 
exactly.  Keep trying, you will get it.

- Ed L.

At 02:09 PM 3/29/00 -0700, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from Barney Treadway 
><barney@wttech.com>     ******
>
>Greetings Group,
>
>This may be a tad off topic but I'm a bit lost and I'm pretty sure someone
>here has conquered this.
>
>I finally got orders encrypted with PGP and sent via email. (Thanks to all
>posters in archives!)
>
>Variable    ENCRYPTOR      /usr/local/bin/pgpe -r orders@mystore.com -fat
>2>/home/mydir/pgp-error.log
>with
>Encrypt Program set to __Encryptor__
>
>This made me very happy until I tried to decrypt the message and PGP tells
>me I need the secret/private key to decrypt. No problem I think, I know how
>to export public keys, I'll just export the private key. Noooo way. Tons of
>documentation on keys and safety and please backup your keys, etc. I try the
>./pgp -kx user keyfile secring.skr or "-kv" but get keyring view erros etc.
>
>Should I have created the key pair locally and put public key on server,
>made it the default signing and let mv use that? Or should I just try to
>find the darn secring.skr and make a copy to send to my local machine?
>
>Thanks  a bunch in advance!!
>
>Barney Treadway
>
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