HOWTO on interfacing with gnupg/pgp2?

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"Huels, Ralf SCORE" wrote:
> 
> > damn!  but it did worked !
> >
> > it works with GPG 1.0.4 (with option --digest-algo md5),
> > but not with 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 :-((((((((
> > 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 doesn't even ask for passphrase :-(
> >
> > Werner, whats wrong ?
> 
> The included message block decrypts nicely here, using
> "gpg --cipher-algo cast5 nokia.htm.asc" with the official 1.0.6 Windows
> build.

well, now when I saved it to file it decrypted fine,
but it did not decrypt when I piped to gpg :-/

1.0.4 was able to decrypt also from pipe...

> If I don't include the algo option, it fails in this manner:
> | bash-2.04$ gpg -v nokia.htm.asc
> | gpg: armor header: Version: 2.6.3ia-multi04
> | gpg: BLOWFISH encrypted data

oh yes - I had cipher-algo cast5 in options file...
you need both  --digest-algo md5 --cipher-algo cast5

> Why does Johan seem to have troble getting gpg to detect the digest
> algo whereas the cipher algo seems to be the problem here?

it is not possible to detect digest and cipher algos
from PGP 2.x conventionally encrypted files,
only way is to try all cipher algos in row
(this is what PGP 2.6.3ia-multi04 does)

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