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Just a ping :-)
Finding a packaged old version of GnuPG to verify old keys will be more
and more difficult year by year...

Is it expected that most of the keys wont import?


gpg: Total number processed: 103
gpg:-a-a-a-a skipped PGP-2 keys: 87
gpg:-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a imported: 16

The 16 keys still recognized by current GnuPG releases are the ones of
the Big-Eight, aioe, bofh, fr, grisbi, hacktic, hr, ie, mensa,
microsoft, pbinfo, perl, pgsql, sfnet, szaf, us.

belwue, bln, de, ffm, fido7, hun, it, ka, linux, openwatcom, uk and
z-netz have sent control articles these last 10 years, and still have
PGP-2 keys...

I hope hierarchy administrators will manage to find a bit of time; news
admins will be grateful for that :-)
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On 6/1/22 4:28 PM, Julien |eLIE wrote:

The 16 keys still recognized by current GnuPG releases are the ones of
the Big-Eight, aioe, bofh, fr, grisbi, hacktic, hr, ie, mensa,
microsoft, pbinfo, perl, pgsql, sfnet, szaf, us.

Does https://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/PGPKEYS need updating? You
mention newer keys for Big-Eight, aioe, and others, but I only see the
old key after importing:

[news@spool1 ~/src]$ gpg --list-keys --homedir=/usr/local/news/etc/pgp news.announce.newgroups
pub 1024R/B88DA9C1 1996-04-10
uid news.announce.newgroups
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Julien +LIE schrieb:

Just a ping :-)
Finding a packaged old version of GnuPG to verify old keys will be more
and more difficult year by year...

Yep. <https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2022/04/msg00008.html>

I hope hierarchy administrators will manage to find a bit of time; news admins will be grateful for that :-)

Still on the to-do list ...

-thh
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Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> writes:

Does https://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/PGPKEYS need updating? You
mention newer keys for Big-Eight, aioe, and others, but I only see the
old key after importing:

[news@spool1 ~/src]$ gpg --list-keys --homedir=/usr/local/news/etc/pgp news.announce.newgroups
pub 1024R/B88DA9C1 1996-04-10
uid news.announce.newgroups

Yeah, sorry, this has been on my list for forever and I kept forgetting to
do it. I've updated the source for ftp.isc.org and hopefully it should
update in the next few days.
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On Sat, 11 Jun 2022 16:38:32 -0700
Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> wrote:

Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> writes:

Does https://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/PGPKEYS need updating? You
mention newer keys for Big-Eight, aioe, and others, but I only see
the old key after importing:

[news@spool1 ~/src]$ gpg --list-keys
--homedir=/usr/local/news/etc/pgp news.announce.newgroups
pub 1024R/B88DA9C1 1996-04-10
uid news.announce.newgroups

Yeah, sorry, this has been on my list for forever and I kept
forgetting to do it. I've updated the source for ftp.isc.org and
hopefully it should update in the next few days.

When I try to import those keys I get a lot of


gpg: skipped PGP-2 keys:

messages. Is there a workaround before I go searching? A quick look
didn't give anything overly useful.

Thanks,
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Nigel Reed wrote:

When I try to import those keys I get a lot of

gpg: skipped PGP-2 keys:

messages.

Do you use gpg1 (i.e. 1.x) or gpg2 (i.e. 2.x)?

GnuPG 2.1.18 and newer won't import those keys; you'll need to use GnuPG
1.x (and gpg, not gpgv for verification).

-thh
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On 6/12/22 5:34 AM, Thomas Hochstein wrote:

Nigel Reed wrote:

When I try to import those keys I get a lot of


gpg: skipped PGP-2 keys:

messages.

Do you use gpg1 (i.e. 1.x) or gpg2 (i.e. 2.x)?

GnuPG 2.1.18 and newer won't import those keys; you'll need to use GnuPG
1.x (and gpg, not gpgv for verification).

-thh

You could mess around trying to get a version of GnuPG 2.x working, but
in the end I also found the path of least resistance to be using GnuPG
1.4.x. Not ideal, but covers the most keys still in use on Usenet.
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On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 16:02:20 -0500
Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> wrote:

On 6/12/22 5:34 AM, Thomas Hochstein wrote:

Nigel Reed wrote:

When I try to import those keys I get a lot of


gpg: skipped PGP-2 keys:

messages.

Do you use gpg1 (i.e. 1.x) or gpg2 (i.e. 2.x)?

GnuPG 2.1.18 and newer won't import those keys; you'll need to use
GnuPG 1.x (and gpg, not gpgv for verification).

-thh

You could mess around trying to get a version of GnuPG 2.x working,
but in the end I also found the path of least resistance to be using
GnuPG 1.4.x. Not ideal, but covers the most keys still in use on
Usenet.

That's about the conclusion I had come to. Thanks for confirming. I'll
go install gpg1.

Thanks,
Nigel
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