-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Myckel Habets wrote: > Hello list, > > Last week I had contact with someone who said that my public key was > "bad" according his validation program.
> The person who said to me that the key validates as bad uses the PGPkeys > program from the PGP corporation software (version 6.58, last version > that was released when Phil Zimmerman worked there, he doesn't trust > later versions) to do the validation. > > To sum this up I have two questions: > > 1) What is causing this problem? Is my key really bad or is this an > incompatibility between PGPkeys version 6.58 and GPG? > > 2) Do I need to create new keys and revoke this key? Was the 'Key Bad' or the Signature? Since Your "friend" insists upon using 6.5.8 [deprecated] then My suspicion is that the Signature failed to verify simply because the Hash used was one which isn't available in 6.5.8. You do not need to create a New Key but You do have 2 choices: 1.) Drag Your Neanderthal Friend out of the Encryption 'Stone Age' by convincing Him to Upgrade to an Application RFC4880 compliant, or 2.) Correspond with Him/Her using _only_ a Hash which is compatible with 6.5.8. :-\ JOHN ;) Timestamp: Sunday 30 Nov 2008, 15:12 --500 (Eastern Standard Time) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10-svn4878: (MingW32) Comment: Public Key at: http://tinyurl.com/8cpho Comment: Gossamer Spider Web of Trust: https://www.gswot.org Comment: Homepage: http://tinyurl.com/yzhbhx iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJJMvO1AAoJEBCGy9eAtCsP9OgIAJ3tVk29PA1toYjulHFI0roD AEmV23D2DFq25TES3aWJF2tnb4YBW/Xvn1hl2lHetN7HuzKNtYZOtaumeOPZBrcG DYhlu7ag9vPw8QHFyuaMNOEluTSzpx/F8kjJp1IIGgrC3J0/Cyf8i8sH2A1OyVx+ H5gJbwZKyQ2Bsasp90vAD9wS+WO9YdliWXbA3hdiNxfQ83Z6S5fvG6NmfuJUi9Sc d1htPgQuYbHhog/vJA0/fyGRIHWZ8EkBQdy7054CDQZ3n1/SnxAW677ex8OLLpwv 7mcfA/r1a82Y22Snz8GCq55Z+AKCjFyeRzkyA2JQLwXX6ik+vDHi9CGN6Rih/Us= =dj0d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
