interoperability with pgp

[Roland Rosenfeld]

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On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, J. Michael Ashley 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.
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> In fact, you can go both ways.  See the PGP 2.x interoperability
> guide on the GnuPG documentation project web page:
> http://www.bluemarble.net/~jashley/gph

It doesn't say anything about the combination of signing and
encryption, which normally doesn't work correct.  Gero's script works
around this problem by first creating a detached signature, then
creating a signed message with this (using some perl tricks and the
--no-literal option of gpg) and after this it encrypts this temporary
message with gpg --no-literal.  Don't ask me why this works, but it
works correct for sign+encrypt.

Ciao

        Roland

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HFRrTZFc6cTd1Kn+/45cGAg=
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