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|  Message 675  |
|  Paul Hayton to mark lewis  |
|  Re: Hum..  |
|  27 Feb 16 15:26:26  |
 RESCANNED 3:770/1 TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A5 MSGID: 3:770/100 485b7b4d REPLY: 1:3634/12.73 56d0715c TZUTC: 1300 On 02/26/16, mark lewis pondered and said... ml> PH> that. Use my Private key to encrypt something that can be unlocked by ml> PH> the PUBLIC key. It would appear gpg4win does not allow this and in a ml> PH> way I can understand why as it flys in the face of what I think the ml> PH> PUBLIC vs PRIVATE keys are to be used for (I think) ml> i was able to export my keyrings from my pgp and import them into this ml> gpg... i imported your signature, too... then i tried decrypting that ml> message but apparently this is what you were talking about above... Yep. Using the windows UI it seems there is only one option and thats encode using others public certificates and also include my own so I can open as well what I encode if I want. ml> details... it looks like encrypting with the public key is the only way ml> allowed now... but as long as it has been, i may be confusing some ml> things... even in the old pgp documentation i have, it says that signing ml> is done with the secret key (of course) and then encryption is done with ml> the recipient's public key... more than one recipient can be specified, ml> too... it has been a really long time, though... Yep you encrypt with their public and your private, they decode with their private key and your public one. That seems to be the way. ml> heck, my key was generated in 1992 and has only been updated a couple of ml> times since then... i need to update it again with a new email address ml> as well as indicating that the old one is no longer valid... i gotta ml> figure out how to do that all over again and then try to get it back ml> over here into gpg... no way in hell i'm going to try to go the other ml> way from gpg to pgp... probably wouldn't work anyway :lol: Yep I found a couple I created some time ago and one I will likely never be able to remove and have long since lost the private key. The other (more of a test) I had the foresight to make it expire a couple of years in the future from when I created it. ml> ok, got my key updated but it is really weird that pgp shows the new ml> items at the top of the list and gpg shows them at the bottom where ml> they're likely to be missed... hummm... Not sure about this... When I tried to import your PGP key into gpg4win it borked and did not like it. I'll try it again now. [time passes] what I am trying to suck in won't work and it says it's a cert without a user ID. I'll keep trying but for now I seem unable to progress setting up a public certificate entry in my software for you. [time passes] I found an entry for waldo kitty with a key ID of B60C20C5 but it won't import. There are other entries for Mark Lewis but it's unclear which if any are yours. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A5 (Windows) * Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (3:770/100) SEEN-BY: 1/123 57/0 90/1 120/340 601 123/131 153/250 757 220/70 226/17 SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 664 1014 240/5832 249/206 SEEN-BY: 249/317 400 267/800 280/464 292/854 310/31 317/3 322/757 SEEN-BY: 340/1000 342/200 712/848 770/0 1 100 340 772/0 1 220 230 SEEN-BY: 772/500 PATH: 770/100 1 229/664 426 |
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