GnuPG - PGP compatibility [Was: Can't compile RSA / IDEA under Windows]

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Michel Bouissou wrote:

> Last but not least, a number of tools in usage today, such as anonymous
> remailers, heavily rely on PGP 2 and PGP 2 format keys, making them necessary
> for interacting with such systems.

Which are quite unreliable and won't not cope with a much larger
user base.  There is some work to be done at the remailers not in
the protocol.

> People that trust only PGP2 (for it has been there for long, extensively
> reviewed, etc.) would never trust a newly "fixed" version of PGP2 incorporating
> CAST5. That's why this suggestion doesn't make sense.

They can look at the code and given the simple control flow used in
PGP 2 it can be implemented quite straightforwad.

> And not integrating these algorithms into the main distribution doesn't force
> GnuPG to display messages stating these algorithms are "deprecated" or
> "obsolete". Maybe just "unsupported" in the corresponding module is not

RSA will be removed from the message today.

  Werner
  

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