GnuPG, error compiling

Stainless Steel Rat ratinox at peorth.gweep.net
Mon May 10 11:45:58 CEST 1999


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* Nathan Kennedy <blaaf at hempseed.com>  on Sun, 09 May 1999
| Dirk wrote:
| <<The only problem I found is when I encrypt a message
| to a pgp2 user, pgp2 can't decode it.>>

PGP 2 uses IDEA and RSA for encryption.  These algorithms have been
deprecated.  IDEA has a patent restriction, RSA has both patent and license
restrictions.  It is unlikely that GnuPG will be able to generate messages
that PGP 2 will grok[1].  Both algorithms have been deprecated by PGP and
OpenPGP.

[1]Okay, that is not entirely true, but the RSA module cannot be legally
used in the US because it violates RSA's license.
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