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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:56:02 +0100
From: Two-a-Day <root@JoeSixpack.net>
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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.

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