RE: [WS_FTP Forum] PGP Error

[Schuessler, Doug]

It appears they used their to encrypt and your key to sign.  This is backwards. Files should be encrypted with the receiver's key and signed with the sender's. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Weber Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:04 PM To: wsftp_forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: [WS_FTP Forum] PGP Error I’m trying to set up file transfer using PGP with a business partner. I will be downloading files from there FTP server.  I created a key pair and emailed the public key to them.  When I download the file I get this error.     [9,2/2/2005 10:57:58 AM,0]150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for test.omwd.remit.20050202134411.pgp (478 bytes). [9,2/2/2005 10:57:58 AM,0]226 Transfer complete. [9,2/2/2005 10:57:58 AM,0]# transferred 478 bytes in 0.010 seconds, 372.901 Kbps ( 46.613 Kbps), transfer succeeded. [-1,2/2/2005 10:57:58 AM,1]Start PGP decoding 'C:\DOCUME~1\mweber\LOCALS~1\Temp\110737067828584test.omwd.remit.20050202134411.pgp' [-1,2/2/2005 10:57:58 AM,1]File is encrypted. Private key is required to decrypt it. [-1,2/2/2005 10:57:59 AM,1]File has signature. Public key is required to verify signature. [-1,2/2/2005 10:57:59 AM,2]Failed to verify the signature from 'Unknown Signer, Key ID is 7268 F5E0 563E C34F', created at Wed Feb 02 10:44:12 2005 [-1,2/2/2005 10:57:59 AM,2]No signing key in the default keyring to verify the signature [-1,2/2/2005 10:57:59 AM,3]Invalid signature [-1,2/2/2005 10:57:59 AM,3]PGP decoding failed [-1,2/2/2005 10:57:59 AM,4]Transfer request completed with status: Failed, 1 SubItem(s) failed     I need help understanding the issue.  I believe I signed the key when I created it.  Does the server side need to sign also?  The really strange part is that the file does get transferred and I can read it without trouble in Notepad.   Any insight would be appreciated! Mark