Compatibility

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Fri, 14 Apr 2000 09:59:59 +0200


On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:


> 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.
IIRC, PGP 5.0beta something did implement Blowfish and created preferences to it. -- Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013 OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0 Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de