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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: Possible HPACK x PGP screwup
- Message-ID: <bontchev.724934842@fbihh>
- Keywords: beware, becareful, behappy, merry christmas
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
- Reply-To: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- References: <1992Dec18.001037.5746@wheaton.wheaton.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 10:47:22 GMT
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- gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber) writes:
-
- > This is the scoop: PGP secret keys need to be converted
- > before they may be used by hpack. Gutmann says he has to add
- > some material to the key because of copyright problems, or
- > something like this. I did the conversion, and HPACK is
- > working fine with the converted key, but now PGP DOESN'T
- > WORK ANYMORE! :-( :-( :-(
-
-
- Hmmm... Very strange... I used KEYCVT too and both PGP (2.0 and 2.1)
- and HPACK work without problems for me... I really don't understand
- what has happened in your case...
-
- > Any help on this topic is appreciated. Note that
- > theoretically something else may have corrupted my key, but
- > i really can't think of any possibility. Besides, HPACK
- > works nice and fine (but PGP doesn't) so it really looks
- > like KEYCVT was the bad guy here.
-
- In fact, KEYCVT adds a new packet to your secret keyring. PGP uses the
- first (the original) packet and HPACK uses the additional one. Either
- of them can become corrupted. This will disable one of the programs,
- but not both. It seems that in your case the first packet is
- corrupted...
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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