Re: why can't mv find our pgp keys?

["Gideon van Gelder" <gideon@swingmaster.nl>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Gideon van Gelder" <gideon@swingmaster.nl>     ******

RTFM, RTFM, RTFM !!! (stands for Read The F**king Manual)

sure hope you're not trying to run a Diffie/Helmann key with version 2.X.
It only supports RSA keys !

-Gideon


> ******    message to minivend-users from "Lyn St George" <lyn@zolotek.com>
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>
> On Fri, 28 May 1999 17:27:48 -0400, staff@custompress.com wrote:
>
> >******    message to minivend-users from staff@custompress.com     ******
> >
> >
> >
> >hello,
> >we are having problems setting up pgp on our catalogs on the minivend.com
> >server.
> >we get the pgp public key (v. 6.0.2) from our client, and we upload it to
> >the server as key.pgp
> >then we pgpk -a key.pgp to add it to to pubring.pgp
> >then we verify by pgpk -ll that it was indeed added to the key ring
> >we believe we have our catalog.cfg correct, with credit card auto ON and
> >this line down lower
> >EncryptProgram  /usr/local/bin/pgp -feat staff@custompress.com
> >2>/tmp/kramarj.err
> >but, then we get credit card validation errors, and the orders do not go
> >through.
> >in trying to debug this, we found the suggestion on the mail list to run
> >this command:
> >ps | /usr/local/bin/pgp -feat staff@custompress.com and we get the
> >following...
> >
> >----------------------------------
> >Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.2 - Public-key encryption for the masses.
> >(c) 1990-1994 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software. 11 Oct 94
> >Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
> >Distributed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
> >Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government.
> >Current time: 1999/05/28 21:17 GMT
> >
> >Unsupported packet format - you need a newer version of PGP for this
file.
> >
> >Unsupported packet format - you need a newer version of PGP for this
file.
> >
> >Key for user ID: Custompress <staff@custompress.com>
> >2047-bit key, Key ID 75634066, created 2941714/01/-1073740764
> >Unrecognized version.
> >
> >Unsupported packet format - you need a newer version of PGP for this
file.
> >
> >Unsupported packet format - you need a newer version of PGP for this
file.
> >
> >Cannot find the public key matching userid 'staff@custompress.com'
> >This user will not be able to decrypt this message.
> >Encryption error
> >
> >For a usage summary, type:  pgp -h
> >For more detailed help, consult the PGP User's Guide.
> >
> >
> >we do not understand why we're getting the result "Cannot find the public
> >key matching userid 'staff@custompress.com: when pgpk -ll (as well as a
cat
> >of pubring.pgp) shows the key to be on the key ring.
> >we also do not understand why we're getting the error msg "Unsupported
> >packet format - you need a newer version of PGP for this file"
> >when our client's keys are using the latest version of pgp...
>
> Don't know about the version mismatch - probably means that
> v2.x can't understand v6 keys?
>
> The public key you added is the one from your client, not
> your own, and so your catalog.cfg line should have
> 'customer@his.dom', not 'staff@custompress.com', as it's
> his ID associated with that public key. You would see your
> own ID  in the keyring, but as the signer for his key. At least
> this is what I've just found working with PGP 5.0, and there
> is a different command syntax with v2.x, but the principle
> should be much the same.
>
>
> >any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >roddy
>
> Lyn St George
> lyn@zolotek.com http://www.Career-Plus.com
>
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