Recovery of PCSECURE files and bogus GnuPG algorithms

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Thu Jun 20 12:57:08 2002


On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:10:56 -0400, Joseph Bruni said:

> I personally, would like to hear his objections about the
> algorithms, but that would probably take a white paper rather than a
> hastily typed email at 30,000 ft. I'm sure the information he is

There is probably nothing wrong with the algorithms.  Phil's concerns
are mostly related to interoperability problems.  In fact this was the
problem.

OpenPGP has a sound mechanism to handle these problems as long as one
does not override this by using --cipher-algo et al.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner