Symmetric Encryption

uid0@catastrophe.net uid0@catastrophe.net
Fri Nov 2 21:06:01 2001


Hello -

I was wondering why using a symmetric key between PGP 6.5.8 and GnuPG 1.0.6
doesn't work when decrypting on the PGP users side.

Basically, if I do a ...

$ gpg -a -c > message.txt

And enter a passphrase, then type my message and send it to the PGP user, 
they get the following after typing in the passphrase.

  PGP Warning
  An error has occurred : bad packet

Anyone run into this? I need symmetric capabilities with PGP users since
most of our group uses PGP.

Thanks.

-#0