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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