HOWTO on interfacing with gnupg/pgp?

[Johan Wevers]

Public <Anonymous_Account> wrote:

> $ echo test |
>   gpg -v --passphrase-fd=0 --digest-algo=md5 --compress-algo=2 nokia.htm.asc

Hmm. Seems the digest algo was the problem here. I assumed GnuPG would
determine from the input file which digest algo was used to hash the
passphrase, but that is apparently not true. Is this information just
not available in pgp 2.x encrypted files?

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