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I'm extremely embarassed to have to ask everyone to please
DISCARD the public key I published on April 18 in these lists.
This BAD key starts

begin 644 EDGAR.PUB
MF5@`T'.Z*0Y%9&=A<B!7+B!3=V%N:_X!3TL'O%OAW@4:B.HY?&K8XT>AMPM?2

in the UUencoded form and displays on the keyring as

pub  510/074B4F  8-Mar-92  Edgar W. Swank

Repeat, the above is the BAD public key, please discard it.

What happened is that the UUE file I sent did not match the
binary key file. It was of an old key that I had replaced with
one with a "better" User ID field which included my net address.
So the result is I don't have a secret key corresponding to the
public key I sent out.

Compounding the problem, I think I found an error in PGP which
shows up when the "%" (per cent) character is included in the
User ID specified at key pair generation. At least when attempting
to display this key on the keyring with PGP the "%" is garbled
and when using "-v" with the secret key this is the result:

C:\PGP>pgp -v C:KEYRING.SEC
Pretty Good Privacy 1.0 - RSA public key cryptography for the masses.
(c) Copyright 1990 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software.  5 Jun 91

Key ring: 'c:keyring.sec'
Type bits/keyID   Date     User ID
sec  510/ECC4D5  8-Mar-92  Edgar Swank
                           <edgarKeyring view error. pectrx@saigon.com>
                           [note:I split above line]
1 key(s) examined.
C:\PGP>

This same problem shows up in the public key Dave Kreiger sent out
a while ago: it displays

pub  510/A5C39B 30-Jan-92  Dave Krieger <dkriegermonty@rand.org>

(note missing percent).  I don't know if this is just a cosmetic
problem or whether is also effects en/decryption. I have sent a
note explaining the problem to Phil Zimmerman (PGP Author).

Please after DISCARDING key described above, REPLACE it with the
following public key (UUENCODE format)

------------------------Cut Here------------------------------
begin 644 ESWANK.PUB
MF5D`C,#S*0]3=V%N:RP@161G87(@5R[^`>UM#62O<6I(:?\2V+N,^>F4T1A!"
M/3,BV.,J-=>:>;(!&5,N7-A>"7.VT2U5)G-%$*XIR3B;\\FA(HP;%UXO-#@%6
"`!$%*
``
end
------------------------Cut Here------------------------------
After this is converted to binary and added to your public
keyring, it should display as:

pub  510/0D6DED 21-Apr-92  Swank, Edgar W.

I sincerely apologize to any of you who may have sent me messages
using the bad public key. I would request your patience and that
you re-send using the new key.

--
edgar@spectrx.saigon.com (Edgar W. Swank)
SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005  Silicon Valley, Ca