[maemo-developers] GPG encryption question

[From: Mike Klein]

dsa is for signing only.


Pasi Patama wrote:
> DSA keys does not work for encryption? It seems to me like that. Here
> is outcome of keygeneration on N810:
>
> ---CUT---
> Possible actions for a DSA key: Sign Authenticate
> Current allowed actions: Sign
>
>    (S) Toggle the sign capability
>    (A) Toggle the authenticate capability
>    (Q) Finished
> --CUT---
>
> If so, I am unable to encrypt anything on default maemo platform on my
> N810, right?
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:32 PM, =?UTF-8?Q?Beno=C3=AEt=20HERVIER=20
> <khertan at khertan.net> wrote:
>   
>>  gnupg seem's to support only DSA keys on maemo.
>>
>>  DSA & Elegam and RSA algo isn't available.
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:13:00 +0200, "Pasi Patama" <ppafin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > Hi,
>>  >
>>  > I've been stepped into wonderful world of maemo just recently, but
>>  > already facing some questions.
>>  >
>>  > How do I use GPG for public-key encryption in N810?
>>  >
>>  > I can create key (in my laptop), import that to N810's gpg keyring,
>>  > but encryption (in N810 shell) gives result like:
>>  >
>>  > gpg: test.txt: encryption failed: unusable public key
>>  >
>>  > Looking forward for some ideas, how to implement public key encryption
>>  > in N810 shell script.
>>  >
>>  > BR,
>>  >
>>  > Pasi
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>>
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