RSA

[David Shaw]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 12:34:53PM -0600, Michael Koppelman wrote:
> What does this mean:
> 
> gpg: cipher algorithm 1 is unknown or disabled
> gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID 9DBCAC2E, created 2002-04-01
>       "Michael D. Koppelman <michael@clockwork.net>"
> gpg: public key decryption failed: unknown cipher algorithm
> gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit RSA key, ID FF1452BB, created 2002-03-20
>       "VISI.com billing <billing@visi.com>"
> gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
> 
> 
> I have RSA installed:
> 
> Supported algorithms:
> Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, RIJNDAEL, RIJNDAEL192, RIJNDAEL256, TWOFISH
> Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160
> 
> Is this because of goddamn IDEA?

Yes.  You will need the IDEA plugin to read the message.

Please read http://www.gnupg.org/why-not-idea.html first, but if this
does not apply to you, you can get the plugin at
ftp://ftp.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/idea.c (and idea.c.sig)

David

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