GnuPG and PGP2.

[Werner Koch]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Krisse Selén wrote:

> At present, simultaneously encrypting and signing a message with so called
> "RSA Legacy" keys requires using a pretty complicated workaround method.

Not looking at the afct that we can't use IDEA, tehre are 2 other
rpoblems:

The first is that at some time I misinterpreted rfc2440 and did not
implement signature w/o one pass packets according to the standard.
This has to be addressed; I hope I can do so in 1.0.5 but it is not
a trivial change.

The second is that OpenPGP and PGP are not really compatible. 3DES
is the only MUST algorithm in OpenPGP whereas it is IDEA in PGP 2.
Addressing this issue needs an extra switch.


   Werner
   
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