Strange warning: "this cipher algorithm is depreciated"

Andrew McDonald andrew@mcdonald.org.uk
Wed Feb 7 19:59:00 2001


On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:12:03AM -0800, Steven E. Harris wrote:

>
> Now, if I encrypt a file, I get warned that "this cipher algorithm is
> depreciated." Should that be "deprecated?"
[snip]
> I'm using gpg 1.0.4. Should I be worried by this warning?
No. It's a double bug. The message should say "deprecated", but in this case shouldn't be saying it at all. See the FAQ: <http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html> or mailing list archives. Andrew -- Andrew McDonald E-mail: andrew@mcdonald.org.uk http://www.mcdonald.org.uk/andrew/