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Re: Preliminary V4 RSA key support added. But I can't test...

1998-04-03 16:39:24
At 05:23 PM 4/3/98 -0500, nospam-seesignature(_at_)ceddec(_dot_)com wrote:
   On Fri, 3 Apr 1998 nospam-seesignature(_at_)ceddec(_dot_)com wrote:
   
   > I generated a V4 RSA key as a primary key and PGP 5.0 promptly converted
   > it to a V3 packet, V3 Keyid, V3 Fingerprint, etc.  Since I can't export
   > a V4 RSA key at the moment, I don't know if I would be able to read it.
   
   I was wrong, it is a V4 packet.  But it uses V3 including keyids for
   everything else, so I can't find the key on the keyring.
   
   I needed to compensate for the checksums unique to RSA secret MPIs.
   
Nonetheless, this sounds like a bug in 5.0.

        Jon



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