use old, saved keyring (web)
Hello,
years ago I used PGP on my old Mac wirth MacOS-8.6, and I saved all of my data on a backup disk, including my PGP keyring. Meanwhile I use a MacBook with MacOS-10.5.8 and Apple-Mail 3.6 with PGP-extension.
Now I would very much like to know how to connect my old keyring to the new system.
Please give me a hint.
Best regards from Klaus-P. Schleisiek
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1 Posted by Klaus-P. Schlei... on 13 Mar, 2012 10:37 AM
Dear GPGTools Project Team,
meanwhile I found that there is no GPG-Keychain-Access installed in
the programs folder, so I tried to install the package
GPGTools-20111224.dmg once again.
The result is the error message which I'll attach below. Failure: run
postupgrade script for GKA-105. Contact Supplier!
Maybe of importance: I use MacOS 10.5.8
Best regards
Klaus-P. Schleisiek
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2 Posted by Klaus-P. Schlei... on 13 Mar, 2012 10:39 AM
Dear GPGTools Project Team,
meanwhile I found that there is no GPG-Keychain-Access installed in
the programs folder, so I tried to install the package
GPGTools-20111224.dmg once again.
The result is the error message which I'll attach below. Failure: run
postupgrade script for GKA-105. Contact Supplier!
Maybe of importance: I use MacOS 10.5.8
Best regards
Klaus-P. Schleisiek
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Sorry,I forgot the appendix:
3 Posted by Alex on 13 Mar, 2012 01:34 PM
Hi Klaus,
unfortunately nobody in our team is using 10.5 anymore - but it should work. Could you please try the latest installer from http://nightly.gpgtools.org/?
Best regards, Alex
4 Posted by Klaus-P. Schlei... on 14 Mar, 2012 08:49 AM
Hi Alex,
thank you for support!
Unfortunately the "nightly" version works either. (GPGTools_Installer-
trunk.dmg)
The error message is now:
"run postinstall script GPGMail-105"
and nothing at all seems to be installed. I have no such script.
Since there was a time when 10.5.8 was the latest version of MacOS
there must have been a package of GPGTools fitting to it?
By the way: does it make sense to download and install the components
of the "tools" separately?
I guess that my subject now is "installing on MacOS10.5.8" rather than
"using old keys", because the initial subject can probably be solved
with an accessible key chain.
Best regards, Klaus
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Support Staff 5 Posted by Steve on 14 Mar, 2012 10:48 AM
The current GPG Keychain Access is running only on 10.6 or above. You can find the stand along version for 10.5 here: http://www.gpgtools.org/keychain/index.html
Try installing that separately and let us know if that does any good.
Also why not update to 10.6?
6 Posted by Klaus-P. Schlei... on 14 Mar, 2012 08:36 PM
Thanks!
MacOS 10.6 costs me 49 Euro (and uncertanties about all my other applications) for two computers.
The stand alone version works.
But I still have no idea how to use my old saved keys.
The access tool refuses to even select them.
Support Staff 7 Posted by Steve on 15 Mar, 2012 01:05 PM
No one on our little team is running 10.5, so we don't give support on problems with that platform.
You could provide a workflow using this form here: http://support.gpgtools.org/kb/faq/found-an-issue
Maybe another user still on 10.5 can help you out.
Cheers, steve
8 Posted by Klaus-P. Schlei... on 15 Mar, 2012 04:23 PM
hello Steve,
my problem of using my old saved keyring is NOT a matter of the
version of MacOS.
The keychain access standalone-application is actually running fine.
It only can´t deal with the old saved keys.
Perhaps it would help to compare an old key to a newly created one. At
what place are the keys stored?
Best regards, Klaus
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Support Staff 9 Posted by Steve on 15 Mar, 2012 04:47 PM
Not sure where you are heading. I asked for a workflow to reproduce the problem you are having. Maybe you can't / don't want to provide one.
What format do your old keys have? Could you give an example file name? How are you trying to import those old keys into GPG Keychain Access?
10 Posted by Klaus-P. Schlei... on 15 Mar, 2012 11:08 PM
Sorry Steve,
I don' really know what a "workflow" is, but I will try to answer on
all of your questions.
I'm using GPG Keychain Access.app , version 0.8.13 on MacOs 10.5.8 .
I tried to import my old keys by the import function, which were
created by PGPfreeware 7.0.3 on MacOS 8.6.
When using the import function, these files can be found, but not
selected for use.
As examples I'll attach two public keys as examples, one of which in
test format. I wonder weather you find them usable.
Support Staff 11 Posted by Luke Le on 16 Mar, 2012 11:18 AM
Hi Klaus,
der Mein_PGP-Key_als_Text hat irgendwelche nicht erkennbaren Zeichen am Anfang.
Bitte lösche alles vor -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- und gib dem File die Endung .asc, dann wird der key von GPG Schlüsselbund erkannt.
Die PGP_Public_Keys Datei sollte die Endung .gpg bekommen, damit sie vom GPG Schlüsselbund erkannt wird.
Lass uns wissen obs hingehauen hat.
Support Staff 12 Posted by Steve on 05 Apr, 2012 02:32 PM
Hi all,
we have an internal ticket for this to let GPG Keychain Access better understand what a key is and be more tolerant concerning strange letters before the actual key starts.
Klaus, since we haven't heard back from you I assume your problem was solved with Luke's advice?
Should that not be the case feel free to re-open the discussion.
All the best, steve
Steve closed this discussion on 05 Apr, 2012 02:32 PM.
Steve closed this discussion on 29 Jun, 2012 01:51 PM.