need help with public keys

From: Thorsten Hofrichter (thofrichter@na.ko.com)
Date: 12/20/02

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From: "Thorsten Hofrichter" <thofrichter@na.ko.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 07:13:04 -0500

    I am new to this group . So hello to all , and thanks in advance for any
    help you can provide .
    I am trying to exchange public keys with another company so we can do
    transfers yet , when I send them my id_rsa.pub they say they format is
    wrong, I look at my private key and that is the kind of format they want.
    My public key just has :
    RSA nowscrambled text.

    Any ideas would be great as there is a lot of pressure to get this done.
    Thorsten Hofrichter
    The Coca-Cola Company
    Infrastructure and Support Team
    Phone: 404-676-2240
    Email: thofrichter@na.ko.com

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