On 30.01.18 15:47, Carl wrote: > Hi, > I am attempting to setup openpgp on osx. I have a set of > certificate/keys in CER, .PEM, and .P12 format. I also have a public key > someone has sent me. All are correct and have been imported and exported > in the OSX KeyChain application. But, when I attempt to import my key > pair into the key manager, the key manager reports the files are empty > without a public or private key. Yet I know for fact they do contain a > public and private key. I also have an email that someone sent to me > which is there public key that is in PEM format. I have tried to import > the key as well as open it with a text editor, copy the text to the > clipboard, and select the key manager to import the key from the > Clipboard. The import function reports the file container is empty. > > In what format do keys have to be in in order for them to be imported. > All of the files that I have described can be opened by a text editor > and viewed. It is not a binary file. It is a text file. The contents of > the file looks like a bunch of alphabetic characters in caps. The > contents of the file begins with the words ------BEGIN CERTIFICATE------ > and ends with the words ------END CERTIFICATE------. > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
CER/PEM/P12 are X.509 (S/MIME) certificates -- you can't import them in OpenPGP. OpenPGP uses different keys that are incompatible to S/MIME. --Patrick
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