Re: [PLUG] Keys: SSH, PGP, etc...

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 02:48 PM 9/24/2001 -0400, Mike Pflugfelder wrote:
>         Recently, I've had some problems that have forced me to look much
> deeper into security.

        Always a good thing...


> What I'm
> looking for is any help on deciphering all of the acronyms and such that I
> start seeing.  RSA, PKI, DES and such.  I was planning on attending the
> meeting on 9/11 and asking some questions there.  Most likely, I'll be at
> the next meeting, but is there some good web pages that someone can point me
> to so that I can start to learn on my own, or maybe answer some of my
> questions in advance.

        The RSA web site has lots of good info 
(http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/faq/) but there is always the comp.crypt FAQ 
(http://www.faqs.org/faqs/cryptography-faq/).


I have generated a key pair for SSH.  I've got that sitting close by.  I've
> also generated a key pair (I believe) for GPG.  Can the two be interchanged?

        No.

        SSH keys are compatible with the X.509 specification, while 
PGP/GPG keys are compatible with the OpenPGP spec.


> Am I creating the same type of keys and I just need to do something
> different for them to work for both applications?

        GPG doesn't support SSH/X.509 keys, but the commercial PGP 
application does.


Leonard


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