Symmetric Encryption

[Stefan H. Holek]

--On Freitag, 02. November 2001 14:03 -0600 uid0@catastrophe.net wrote:

> 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.

You will have to select algorithms that are supported by PGP 6.5.8.

Try:
gpg --cipher-algo cast5 --compress-algo 1 -a -c > message.txt

Stefan

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