PGP 6.5.3 reports bad signature on GnuPG signed files/mails

[Timo Schulz]

On Tue Jun 26 2001, Joerg Erdmenger wrote:

Hi,

> I'm beginning to use GnuPG on Win2k instead of PGP 6.5.3. I successfully
> imported my keyrings and figured how tow work it on the commandline. Now a
> little problem occurred:
> If I sign something with GnuPG (1.0.6) and then verify it with PGP, PGP
> reports a bad signature (it decrypts ok). Is this a feature or am I missing
> something?

>From the FAQ:

5.5) Why is PGP 5.x not able to verify my messages?

    PGP 5.x does not accept V4 signatures for data material but OpenPGP
    requests generation of V4 signatures for all kind of data, that's why
    GnuPG defaults to them.  Use the option "--force-v3-sigs" to generate
    V3 signatures for data.


IMO it's also for PGP 6.x and 7.x.


Timo

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