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GPG the way to go...

Finally I got my PGP stuff working again. Well, under Linux you should go with gpg. PGP is not really supported anymore. (open source at least). Import your old PGP keys:

gpg --import secring.skr

gpg --import pubring.pkr

Then, I had to download the IDEA module as people were sending me messages encrypted with IDEA. Compile with:

gcc -Wall -O2 -shared -fPIC -o idea idea.c

Then copy the idea file into /usr/lib/gnupg. From now on you need to add the following parameter to your gpg command:

gpg --load-extension idea

PGP Under Linux

The most important commands you will need: Help about key management:

pgp -k

To show all the keys in your keystore

pgp -kv

Verify a key-id on a key-server

pgp -kv 0xC9E1B2F1 ldap://keyserver.pgp.com

Verify a fingerprint of a key

pgp -kvc raffy

Sign the uid beedgen with the id raffy@raffy.ch

pgp -ks beedgen -u raffy@raffy.ch

Edit the trust of userid stillhard

pgp -ke stillhard

Get the keyid from the keyserver into the file "keyfile" and then in a second step add it to the keyring.

pgp -kx 0x4FB31411 keyfile ldap://keyserver.pgp.com pgp -a keyfile

Verify a key

pgp -kc raffy

Some more commands

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