Secret key storage

Kristian Fiskerstrand news at kfwebs.net
Sat Jan 6 19:08:07 CET 2007


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Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote, On 01/06/2007 06:46 PM:
> 
> You lost me.
> 
> In every place PGP 2.x used symmetric encryption, it used IDEA. It
> couln't use CAST for many reasons, first one being that CAST didn't
> exit yet.

I'm not looking for compatibility in key storage, but message exchange.
Don't get too caught up in the s2k change, it was a debugging factor,
and it didn't help.

>  
>>>> CAST as the S2K algorithm?
>>> plus, there is --pgp2 switch in gnupg to enforce compatibility
>> The issue also happens when receiving messages, which is the example in
>> the bug report. --pgp2 by default won't have any meaning in GnuPG 2.0,
>> as there wasn't any IDEA plugin (that I'm aware of) prior to this effort.
> 
> And you're wrong:

No, I'm not.

> 
> alex at FUCKUP:~$ gpg --version
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.3

Note the "GnuPG 2.0" in my reply, I'm fully aware of the compatibility
in 1.4, I'm trying to reproduce it in 2.0

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