PGP & GnuPG

[Giorgos Pallas]

thanks very-very much for all the answers. It just wanted in the options
file this line :
compress-algo 1

bye
giorgos

----- Original Message -----
From: "No User" <no.user@anon.xg.nu>
To: <gpall@hal.csd.auth.gr>
Sent: Δευτέρα, 12 Φεβρουαρίου 2001 17:08
Subject: Re: PGP & GnuPG


> Giorgos Pallas [2001-02-11]:
> > To clear smth out, is there ANY way to encrypt something with GnuPG
(1.0.4)
> > and decrypt it with PGP (7.0.3)
> Yes. Just use algorithms that PGP understands.
>
> Here is an excerpt of my $HOME/.gnupg/options file (note: some of it is
not
> necessary for pgp 7.0.3, but I happen to communicate with people using
older
> pgp versions...)
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>
> # which compression ?
> #compress-algo 2=default 1=pgp
> compress-algo 1
>
> # which cipher ?
> # pgp uses idea(/rsa) which is patented in the usa.  for gpg there is
elgamal
> # for encryption and dsa for compact signatures.  the symmetric algos are:
> # Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, TWOFISH
> #cipher-algo <name> pgp-compatible={3des cast5 !(blow|two)fish}
> cipher-algo cast5
> #digest-algo <name> {md5 ripemd160 sha1}
> digest-algo sha1
> #s2k-cipher-algo <name>, which is the string-to-key cipher used for
seckeys
> s2k-cipher-algo cast5
>
> # defaults:  dsa/signing, elgamal/encryption
> disable-pubkey-algo ELG
>
> # Options for GnuPG, which work fine with pgp:
> # interop with PGP 5 users.  For OpenPGP compliance remove this option.
> #force-v3-sigs
>
> # if you or your recipients need the IDEA cipher, uncomment the next line
> #load-extension /path/to/gnupg-modules/idea
>
>