Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that this is a valid option in my version of GnuPG 1.0.4.
> Double check your version. I know it's not documented, so I didn't use it,
> initially. When I tried to import a secret key, though, it refused to do
> so, telling me to provide this option. So I did, and it worked.
I havn't found any trace of this option greping the source code of
released GPG.
I've also looked in the anonymous GPG repository :
- on STABLE-BRANCH-1-0, --allow-secret-key-import is a documented
new option and shall be used to import secret keys.
- on HEAD (gnupg 1.1 experimental), theyre is no trace of this
options
Here is some output from my installation, using FreeBSD freshly
updated ports :
% LANG=C gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.4
Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, RIJNDAEL, RIJNDAEL192, RIJNDAEL256, TWOFISH
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160
% LANG=C gpg --import --no-tty --allow-secret-key-import
gpg: Invalid option "--allow-secret-key-import"
