UNIX PGP encryption

[Chern Jian Leaw]

HI,

I'm trying to use PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) on a HP11.0 machine. I tried generating my own public/private key pair:
#pgp -kg
(- Selected a 512 bits as the RSA key size.
- For public key, I used by username:
cjl04
-entered a "test" as my passphrase )

It produced the following error:
Can't create output file '/.pgp/secring.pgp'
Can't create output file '/.pgp/pubring.pgp'

Could someone help me out on this?

Also, what is meant by the keyring and keyfile i.e as in the phrase "To add a key file's contents to your public or secret key ring"?
The above phrase is from the pgp man page.
pgp -ka keyfile [keyring]

Also, how can I tell what is the keyring, and how it is generated?

Thanks.

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

Look at

http://www-old.cs.umn.edu/help/security/pgp.html

Make sure you made the directory properly


Steve Steel

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
try this
#mkdir /.pgp
do it again now.
regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Chern Jian Leaw]

Steve, Siva,

Could you guys explain to me what is meant by the phrase:
"To add a key file's contents to your public or secret key ring"?
The above phrase is from the pgp man page.
pgp -ka keyfile [keyring]

Also, how can I tell what is the keyring, and how it is generated ?

Thanks.

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
please refer this link.

http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Steve Steel]

Hi

keyring. = Key file

Public. Open access
Secret = Personal

see

http://www.cs.wm.edu/pgp.html

http://www.rubin.ch/pgp/glossar.en.html


Steve Steel