Problems for PGP5 users to use my GPG-key.

[Jonas Steverud]

"J. Michael Ashley" <jashley@ct39416-a.nblvil1.in.home.com> writes:

> On 3 Nov 1999, Jonas Steverud wrote:
> > A friend of mine uses PGP 5.0 and we want to encrypt our emails. He can
> > decrypt my mails to him but when he tries to encrypt with my GPG 1.0.0
> > key he gets "No algorithm available that all keys support.".
[...]
> The problem could be that your friend is encrypting the message to
> himself as well, and his key does not have cast5 or twofish in his
> preferences.
> 
> I'm not sure how to change one's algorithm preferences in GnuPG.  
> 
> As ana aside, I'm a bit surprised that 3DES is not in a GnuPG-generated
> key's preferences by default.

And the bottom line is? I don't think I understand how this will help me.

I would really appreciate any help to get this fixed. I want to encypt
my mail to my pgp5-using friend.

My key is generated by gpg so the PGP5-GnuPG HOWTO is of little or no
use.

I started to get GnuPG to work with PGP about 2 month ago but still
haven't got it work. Since I'm completely without knowledge on how
GPG, PGP and related issues works in practice (what to putin which
configfile etc.) I cannot do this by myself. I think this is my 4:th
or 5:th cry for handguided help.

Time to give up?

Am I the only one to communicate with PGP5 users?

/Jonas, who just checked the documentation again but found no help.
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