Q: Why doesn't --pgp2 warn you if you don't have IDEA

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:56, rjh at sixdemonbag.org said:

> Possibly.  I am not a developer and do not claim to speak for them.  I
> would speculate that RFC1991 conformance (PGP 2.6 compatibility) is such

Actually RFC1991 is not complete description of PGP 2.6

BTW, PGP2 is basically broken because it relies on the MD5 algorithm
which is considered too weak now.  Thus we won't bother to add any more
compatiblity switch for PGP 2 into GnuPG.



Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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