compatibility with PGPfreeware 6.5.8

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

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On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:23:11AM -0500, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

> Is the aforementioned version completely incompatible with gpg, or
> are there switches to ensure compatibility?

--pgp6

> If that is the case, does it mean that that version of PGP was not
> OpenPGP-compliant?

Yes.

> Encrypted documents I created with GnuPG 1.2 could not be decrypted
> with that client on Window$.

If your 'options' (or 'gpg.conf') file is sane, and the key you are
encrypting to was created by PGP 6.5.8, then it should work.

Do you have a 'cipher' line in your gpg.conf? Something like that?

--=20
Lionel
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

iEYEARECAAYFAj3bN34ACgkQscRzFz57S3MK+wCeMDmIMnCWt4Sr1OoCGEFz6Dkw
j+IAoJpLQaYFlR5otX/e8g9dK3qgXDEw
=KjGc
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