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Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:18:57 +0100


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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:56:02 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 04:08:29PM +0200, Sotiris Vassilopoulos wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After reading the docs and loading the necessary 'idea' module, it is
> unclear to me whether gnupg can do conventional symmetric encryption,
> in a way that is pgp-2 compatible.
>
>
> Doing the obvious
> gpg --verbose --rfc1991 --digest-algo=md5 --compress-algo 1 \
> --cipher-algo=idea -c -a -o encrypted.asc plaintext
> doesn't seem to work, as
> pgp encrypted.asc
> complains with
> Error: Bad pass phrase.
>
> Going the other way works and gnupg (given the right options) has no
> problem decoding pgp-2 symmetrically encrypted messages.
>
You have forget to use the '--s2k-mode 0' = PGP 2.6.x method '--s2k-digest-algo MD5' '--s2k-cipher IDEA' options. -- Two-a-Day at JoeSixpack.net www.freenet.de/JoeSixPack keyid BF3DF9B4 -- Root at JoeSixpack.net www.freenet.de/JoeSixPack keyid 0xBF3DF9B4 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Werner Koch at guug.de www.gnupg.org keyid 621CC013 Boycott Amazon! - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html