Re: gnugpg question

[Jens Rantil <jens.rantil () telia com>]

Perhaps you should write this question to the GnuPG mailing list or check the archive...

Mailing list:
http://www.gnupg.org/docs-mls.html
Archive:
http://lists.gnupg.org/

/Jens

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:07:35 -0700
"Evil Monkey" <mojojojo () cheme washington edu> wrote:

> I've been playing around with PGP and have found something kooky.  I'm
> curious if y'all have seen the same thing and might be able to offer some
> explaination:
>
> - I can create a key pair with the PGP tools for Windows.  I can use this
> key pair to successfully encrypt and decrypt on the box I created it.  I can
> export this keypair, and import it into gnugpg on a slackware box and
> successfully use it to encrypt and decrypt things.
>
> - I can create a keypair with gnugpg on the slackware box.  I can use this
> key pair to successfully encrypt and decrypt things on that box.  I can
> export the key pair and import it into the pgp tools on a windows box.
> However when I try to encrypt or decrypt with that keypair it barfs on the
> passphrase.  With an older version of the pgp tools it claimed the
> passphrase was incorrect.  With the most current version it claims the
> passphrase doesn't exist and won't let me do a thing.  On the newest version
> of pgp tools, if I check out the key's properties and attempt to change the
> passphrase it says the passphrase I've entered is incorrect.
>
> Any ideas as to the cause of this?
>
> Pete

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