Hi Eric!

> ... [ Deletia ]
> 
> > > Then you know wrong.
> > > 
> > > GPG is quite content with PGP5 messages out of the box.  For PGP2 (ie,
> > > RSA/IDEA), you can download and install the correct modules for GPG and
> > > it will be glad to work with those.  (Though it will probably refuse to
> > > accept some keys that are not self-signed, since PGP2 allowed creation
> > > of such, but then such keys are not secure anyway, and people shouldn't
> > > trust them.)
> > > 
> > 
> > I have never got a PGP 5 sig to work with GPG. But then maybe it has
> > something to do with the fact that they keys are no self signed.
> > 
> > Sean
> > 
> 
> Please see my posting of 5 minutes ago to get RSA working.  You do
> bring up a good point, though.  GPG will *not* use an unsigned key.

Got it and sorted.

> You'll see output like the following:
> 
> [-- PGP output follows (current time: Mon Nov 22 16:54:17 1999) --]
> gpg: Signature made Wed Aug 11 11:36:48 1999 MDT using RSA key ID 98645519
> gpg: requesting key 98645519 from pgp5.ai.mit.edu ...
> gpg: public key is 43099 seconds newer than the signature
> gpg: key 98645519: invalid self-signature
> gpg: public key is 43476 seconds newer than the signature
> gpg: key 98645519: invalid self-signature
> gpg: key 98645519: no valid user IDs
> gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg:           w/o user IDs: 1
> gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
> [-- End of PGP output --]
> 
> e.
> 
> P.S.
> Jeremy, you should sign your key.  ;-)
> 

I got around it by manually importing Jeremy's pgp key :)

Sean

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