interoperability with pgp

Roland Rosenfeld roland@spinnaker.de
Sat, 2 Oct 1999 17:49:25 +0200


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On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, Lazarus Long wrote:


> > Though it is possible to add support for RSA and IDEA by compiling
> > them as modules and using load-extension. Which means that you can
> > communicate with PGP 2.x users.

> But only to a limited degree. See list archives for recent thread I
> started on the inability to encrypt to PGP2 user. :(

> A one-way street is not very satisfying.
You may want to look at=20 http://muppet.faveve.uni-stuttgart.de/~gero/gpg-2comp.tar.gz a tricky perl script written by Gero Treuner <gero@faveve.uni-stuttgart.de>. This scripts is a wrapper which should be used in combination with Mutt (don't ask me whether it works in other environments) and it allows to sign, encrypt and sign+encrypt Messages with GnuPG, which are readable for PGP 2.x. This script give you full PGP 2.x interoperability as long as you use RSA keys only (for signing and encryption to _all_ recipients). Ciao Roland --=20 * roland@spinnaker.de * http://www.spinnaker.de/ * PGP: 1024/DD08DD6D 2D E7 CC DE D5 8D 78 BE 3C A0 A4 F1 4B 09 CE AF --xUyMHIOv46mebLva Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE39imFO7/Pd72LBQ0RAvpjAKCjhX0jNzLWRiYCpyQUKp9k1L5bBACfWve/ VHbpz95fYfHer/HrAuaTh5Q= =Cduy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xUyMHIOv46mebLva--