PGP 5.x and GnuPG

[L. Sassaman]

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On Fri, 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?
 
I just had him send me a test encrypted message that I tested on PGP 6.5.1
and other versions. No problems at all... 

Other than the encrypted secret keys, do you know of any compatability
problems between GnuPG and PGP 6 and up, Werner? Assuming we are using
standard DH/DSS keys.


- --Len.

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L. Sassaman

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