PGP 5.x and GnuPG

[William X. Walsh]

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On 17-Mar-2000 Trevor Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:25:29 -0800 (PST), William X. Walsh wrote:
> 
>>Well, I don't know about this.  I've had a large problem with PGP 6.x not
>>being
>>able to decrypt messages encrypted by GnuPG, regardless if they key it is
>>encrypting to was created in GnuPG or PGP.
> 
> So you're saying that GnuPG and PGP are *not* compatible and people
> using one may not be able to successfully exchange encrypted
> documents with users of the other?
> 
> Or is your problem rare or intermittent, with the majority of
> GnuPG-encrypted messages being handled properly by PGP 6.x?
> 

The problem is persistant, and anytime I encrypt a message using GnuPG, users
of PGP 6.5.x (for windows at least) cannot decrypt the message.  It gives an
error.  I've reported this a few times in the past over the last few months.

This is not an intermittent problem.

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William X. Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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