At 07:25 AM 3/11/96 +0000, you wrote:

My DOS version of PGP 2.6.2 came with a built in PUBRING.PGP containing two keys ( 1024 and 512 size ) with the same user ID . For testing purposes I wanted to encrypt a message with the 512 length key , but only the 1024 size key could be used .

How can I select the right key , apart from making a clone PUBRING.PGP with only the key I want to use ?

You need to use the hex id of the key. (I have this problem as well.) To get the hex id of the key, try "pgp -kv <yournamehere>". That will give you the hex id (right after the key size). For example, if -kv returned: 2048/F7D02799 you would use "0xF7D02799" instead of your name. (No quotes and case does not matter.) This does have some Cypherpunks relevence... Many of the PGP front-ends I have seen do not use the key ID, and thus, do not pick the correct keys in this curcumstance. (And some use it for some, but not all, operations.) But then, I would like to see key management handled alot differently than it is now. (For example, I would like to see PGP use multiple keyrings with an order of precidence. Search the most used keyring first and then check the mega-keyring if nothing is found in the first one. I expect that kind of feature is a ways off...) --- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon