Compatibility

[Lazarus Long]

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On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:32:46PM +0200, Johan Lundberg wrote:
 > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
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 > >Be sure you are using a cipher that both products can understand. 3DES =
is
 > >the most logical, since it is required by RFC 2440. CAST is the default
 > >cipher in PGP, and Blowfish in GnuPG. PGP does not implement Blowfish, =
so
 > >this is most likely your problem.
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 > So, why does GPG default to something that pgp cant handle?

So why does PGP default to something that GnuPG can't handle?

The point is to be compatible with the spec (the RFC) not with some
commercial software.  If some commercial software, any commercial
software, happens to be compliant with the RFC, then interoperability
should be possible.  That's one of the reasons for compliance with
standards.

However, I am now curious why the commercial (NAI) PGP doesn't support
open source Blowfish.  But, being a commercial endeavor, I suppose I
should not care very much what they (NAI) do or do not support.  As long
as GnuPG remains standards-compliant I should be happy.  The fact that NAI
chose to make their product noncompliant with the standard (in another
manner) is deplorable (in my opinion.)  They are certainly not something
to be emulated.

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