GnuPG and PGP 2.6: unusable public key

[disastry@saiknes.lv]

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> Anonymous remailer@remailer.xganon.com  wrote:
> 
> I have put together a short cheat sheet for GnuPG <-> PGP 2.6 interoperation.
> It is assumed here that you have compiled and enabled the IDEA module
> for GnuPG and that you work on a unix-like OS. Here it is:
> 
> ###################################################
> Add your PGP-2 public key to your public gpg keyring (don't use -a)
>         pgp -kx my_user_id rsa-key 
>         gpg --import rsa-key.pgp
> Add your PGP-2 secret key to your secret gpg keyring (don't use -a)
>         pgp -kx my_user_id rsa-key-secret ~/.pgp/secring.pgp
>         gpg --import rsa-key-secret.pgp

it will not work - you need:

          gpg --import --allow-secret-key-import rsa-key-secret.pgp

>         rm rsa-key-secret*
> 
> Now you can open PGP-2 signed/encrypted/signed+encrypted messages
> 
> ###################################################
> Conventional (symmetric) PGP-2 compatible encryption:
>                         (must know filesize; won't work with pipes)
>         file_to_encrypt=top-secret.txt
>         gpg --rfc1991 \
>         --verbose --digest-algo=md5 --compress-algo 1 --cipher-algo=idea \
>         --set-filesize `find $file_to_encrypt -printf '%s'` $file_to_encrypt
> 
> Conventional (symmetric) PGP-2 compatible decryption:
>         gpg --verbose --digest-algo=md5 --compress-algo 1 --cipher-algo=idea

no need for "--compress-algo 1" when decrypting.

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