getting rid of blowfishes (was Re: Windoze PGP Compatability)

L. Sassaman rabbi@quickie.net
Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:55:42 -0700 (PDT)


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That should not have disabled RSA... seems like a very obscure bug. But I
was wrong, it looks like ElGamal signing is ELG, not ELG-S?

So perhaps that will work.


- --Len.

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Fischer wrote:


> On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
>
> > You lost RSA? how odd. That should disable ElGamal signing keys, which are
> > too insecure to be trusted.
>
> these are my options:
>
> default-key 4894C483
> force-v3-sigs
> compress-algo 1
> cipher-algo cast5
> digest-algo sha1
> s2k-cipher-algo cast5
> disable-cipher-algo blowfish
> # vvvvv
> disable-pubkey-algo ELG-S
> escape-from-lines
> armor
> verbose
> comment "gpg 1.0.1"
> lock-once
> completes-needed 2
> marginals-needed 3
> max-cert-depth 4
> no-comment
> no-version
> load-extension idea
> load-extension rsa
>
> ...and this is the output of "gpg --version":
>
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1
> Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
>
> Home: ~/.gnupg
> Supported algorithms:
> Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, TWOFISH
> Pubkey: ELG-E, DSA, ELG
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160
>
> --
> ino-waiting@gmx.net
>
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