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Date:      09 May 2002 15:11:02 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        sroberts@dsl.pipex.com
Cc:        "Barry J. Grundy" <bgrundy@imx.hq.nasa.gov>, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [Users] Evolution and pgp-2.6.2 / pgp-50i
Message-ID:  <1020971472.8229.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
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On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 14:51, S. Roberts wrote:
> Hi Barry,
>    I installed pgp6.5.8, but I'm still having problems.
> 
> It installed okay enough:
> ~/.pgp $ ls
> PGPMacBinaryMappings.txt	pubring.pkr
> PGPgroup.pgr			randseed.rnd
> PGPsdkPreferences		secring-bak-1.skr
> pgp.cfg				secring-bak-2.skr
> pubring-bak-1.pkr		secring.skr
> pubring-bak-2.pkr
> ~/.pgp $ 
> 
> I generated my pub/sec keys okay, configured Evo accordingly, but I keep
> getting the same error message after entering my passphrase:
> Error: no secret key found
> signature error
> 
> Dude what am I doing wrong here. I've read through the documentation
> (PGP Command Line Guide) three times now, but can't seem to get anywhere
> with this. I even restarted Evo in case it might help, but nothing.

I use gpg with Evo, and it works just fine.  I have not tried PGP,
though.

Joe

> 
> I've copied this to freebsd-questions just in case someone else might
> have any ideas. Uname info:
> 
>  ~ $ uname -a 
> FreeBSD <snip> 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #1: Tue May  7 00:13:10 BST
> 2002 <snip>:/usr/src/sys/compile/<snip>  i386
> ~ $ 
> 
> 
> I'll keep trying though.
> 
> Stacey
> 
> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 14:50, Barry J. Grundy wrote:
> > At 06:50 AM 5/9/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> > >Hi Barry,
> > >    Installed pgp5, but I'm having problems with it:
> > > >snip>
> > >
> > >What's this pgp.cfg? I can't find the documentation on creating, nor how
> > >to create this.
> > 
> > Stacey,
> > 
> > I'm not sure about the problems you're having.  I have a pgp.cfg in my 
> > ~/.pgp/ directory, but it's an empty file.  I don't get those errors.  Are 
> > you using PGP 5 for a particular reason?  The version I'm using is 6.5.8 
> > from http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html
> > 
> > That version seems pretty easy to use all around.  Try it, or let me know 
> > if you've tried it already.  I'd suggest giving this a try, and see if it 
> > works better.  If you can't get it off the site, I'll e-mail the file to 
> > you.  FWIW, there's no mention of the pgp.cfg file anywhere in the docs 
> > that I can see.  But, it's there...just empty.  I don't get it either.
> > 
> > Let me know how it goes.
> > 
> > Barry
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> -- 
> Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science
> Network Systems Engineer
> 
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