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Enver555 wrote:
| On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:15:08 -0400, J. Michael Morse wrote:
|
|
|>I switched from Windows/Netscape 4.8 to Linux Fedora Core
|>/Mozilla 1.7.  With Netscape, I used a PGP encryption add-on.
|>Mozilla uses the GnuPG program.  Is it possible to use the
|>keys or do I have to generate a new pair?
|>
|>I downloaded the HOW TO from
|> http://webber.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/english
|>but did not see a section for importing keys.
|>
|>Michael
|
| You can switch from Pgp to Gnupg if your version of PGP was 2.X.Y , if
| your version it's 5.x.y , 6.x.y and 7.x.y ; you can't switch because this
| versions of Pgp uses the Idea algorithm which is patented and Gnupg only
| uses algorithms without patents.
|
| Samuel Gimeno Artigas
|
You can still import the keys. If you wish to use IDEA then you can,
it's just not builtin the package. See
http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/why-not-idea.html and grab the source to build
the dynamic library.

Wren


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