bug encrypting to RSA keys?

[Werner Koch]

"J. Michael Ashley" <jashley at tc0-eth1.ind.bluemarble.net> writes:

> While the above works, if I do the following:
> 
>      gpg --no-options --load-extension ~/.gnupg/idea.o --load-extension
>      ~/.gnupg/rsa.o --rfc1991 --cipher-algo idea --compress-algo 1 --encrypt
>      --armor --recipient elmer < test

PGP does not implement "partial length headers" which are needed for 
encrypting a stream (of unknown size).  The workaround in PGP is to
use a temporary file.

GnuPG uses partial length headers to do the encryption and due to
--rfc1991 it should use a pre-OpenPGP way to encode partial lengths.

There is no way to do it.  Maybe pgpgpg has the workaround too.


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