gpg --pgp2 and sign+encrypt

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Thu May 2 22:23:01 2002


On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:13:27PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> In older versions, GnuPG was unable to sign+encrypt in a single pass
> and create messages compatible with PGP 2.x.  Has this changed with
> 1.0.7 and the --pgp2 option?

No.  The main difference is that GnuPG will now error if you try to do
it with --pgp2 set, rather than generate a message that PGP 2.x won't
handle.

David

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