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- Subject: Re: Possible HPACK x PGP screwup
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.115714.4669@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:57:14 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.001037.5746@wheaton.wheaton.edu> <bontchev.724934842@fbihh>
- Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
- Keywords: beware, becareful, behappy, merry christmas
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- In <bontchev.724934842@fbihh> bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
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- >gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber) writes:
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- >> 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...
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- Actually it wasn't keycvt at all, the problem was caused by an extremely
- ..errr.. creative:-) use of keycvt. I'll post a full explanation in a day
- or two once the exact details are sorted out (I've been away for the last
- few days). Suffice to say that in normal usage:
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- keycvt secring.pgp secring.pgp
-
- as described in the docs, noone has reported any problems. Anyway, more in
- a day or two.
-
- Peter.
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