[51979] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP : what to do when a user ID has multiple RSA keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris McAuliffe)
Mon Mar 11 20:31:57 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:45:44 -0800 (PST)
From: cmca@alpha.c2.org (Chris McAuliffe)
To: savron@world-net.sct.fr
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 11 Mar 96 07:25:59 GMT.
<199603110740.IAA06248@storm.certix.fr>
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[Subject: Re: PGP : what to do when a user ID has multiple RSA keys ]
[In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 11 Mar 96 07:25:59 GMT.]
<199603110740.IAA06248@storm.certix.fr>
>My DOS version of PGP 2.6.2 came with a built in PUBRING.PGP
>containing two keys ( 1024 and 512 size ) with the same user ID .
>For testing purposes I wanted to encrypt a message with the 512
>length key , but only the 1024 size key could be used .
>How can I select the right key , apart from making a clone
>PUBRING.PGP with only the key I want to use ?
You can specify by the keyid. Do a pgp -kvv:
$ pgp -kvv cmca@alpha.c2.org
Type bits/keyID Date User ID
pub 1024/6C87FFA5 1996/02/06 Chris McAuliffe <cmca@alpha.c2.org>
1 matching key found.
Now do the encryption
$ pgp -e 0x6C87FFA5 file
Note the '0x' prefix on the keyid
Chris McAuliffe <cmca@alpha.c2.org> (No, not that one.)
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