-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Klaus Fuerstberger wrote: > Alphax said the following on 10/04/05 12:04: > > >>>>a time ago I created a "Sign Only" DSA Key with an ElGamal Encrypt >>>>Subkey. Now I noticed that it is not possible to encrypt a message with >>>>PGP to this Public Key because PGP only sees the "sign only" primary Key >>>>and not the encrypting subkey. > > >>Must be a very old version of PGP... > > > Maybe You missunderstand my procederes: > $ gpg --gen-key > Please select what kind of key you want: > (1) DSA and ElGamal (default) > (2) DSA (sign only) > (4) RSA (sign only) > > Here I selected "2". After the key creation I did a: > > Command> addkey > Please select what kind of key you want: > (2) DSA (sign only) > (3) ElGamal (encrypt only) > (4) RSA (sign only) > (5) RSA (encrypt only) > > Here I selected "3". > > This key does not work with PGP5 for encryption. Only for signing. >
It may be that PGP 5 doesn't support ElGamal keys. Try adding an RSA subkey. - -- Alphax | /"\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 | X Against HTML email & vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up | / \ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBQ0J757MAAH8MeUlWAQhZlggAjao1fhPEx4AHlDETCAHXAVTqMv6rZhJk PmU5oecEkk/IkS1JLXdacrpNzSl+1FUL3nSVYPdAUSq+ZQ8TEBdHnvhnKW8EjOaQ G7JIAEBW9xn6ctLEGkDGdPQYdsjB6dFuCmnjleQtLEsw6XE2VGDyRLBUPhpKG0Lq 66i2WtNK2T9+bh913jdQHMt2xpf86LAxAySAEZA7jYqh6mL2+SV5/+Lbkg1JRl3D SREiNFWPQENYpnUQ3vY0yrUR96AzbCR1ucRk7b7GtJjxnTaIT7kRpy9bCqXM1zHV x2G7xnDuWk1uiRyJkUlNGsuzOAIw4D/V4ei3EHkA1FMBMMKjmXxmFQ== =Ukir -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
