follow-up v 3rsa key

[vedaal@lok.com]

>    idea.dll under Win2k? (Martin Schoch 3. Compiling               )
>    GPG source (Ian McIntosh 4. Re: FAQ update for MUAs             )
>    supporting GnuPG (chris@inferno.nadir.org 5. question           )
> Message: 1 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:21:31 +0200 From:
> disastry@saiknes.lv To: gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
> Subject: Re: followup v3 rsa key
> vedaal wrote: > i 'thought' i understood, but now i am more confused
> :( > > please bear with me: > [1] am running 1.1.92a windows
> binary with the idea plugin correctly installed, and everything
> works as expected > [2] disabled the option of 'load-extension
> c:\gnupg\lib\idea' > [3] as expected, i cannot sign with my default
> v3 rsa key generated in 2.6.3 > *but* > [4] i 'can' sign with
> another v3 rsa key that was generated in 6.5.8 ckt
>
> I don't think you can (at least I can not, see below)
...
> tried with this key, couldn't sign without IDEA:
>
> f:\TEMP>gpg --homedir . --clearsign aaa gpg: protection algorithm 1
> (IDEA) is not supported gpg: the IDEA cipher plugin is not present
> gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/why-not-idea.html for more
> information gpg: no default secret key: unknown cipher algorithm
> gpg: aaa: clearsign failed: unknown cipher algorithm
>
> f:\TEMP>gpg --homedir . --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.7 Copyright

maybe not in 1.0.7,

try with the 1.1.9.2 windows binary,

here is an armored signed message using the same v3 rsa test key, without loading the 'idea' plugin

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.1.92 (MingW32) 
Comment: Acts of Kindness better the World, and protect the Soul

owEBVwGo/pANAwADAfFWZIj3ev97AawuYgx+Z3BndHJheS5jbHA9jpzNc2lnbmlu
ZyB3aXRoIHRlc3RAa2V5LnRlc3QNCokBFQMFAD2OnM3xVmSI93r/ewEDFQkH/iaV
BJbIwwzxWOdu68dBQGywOPdyHY+2Re6xj4tM/u8A67gvx92EQnsbDyS56NSbUihZ
0pcN2+YRbLE7ah7DNbYxQvjrMCsJg3adROWwt7/SF2kIXbKRl6RHVRys0fNVNhRL
pgfq5PAGWHQTtsXLsZLUl64oJBNVvAZobdA4HuE/TLfLht9hWHfswvKJUDH7omdV
fa2VVfVEIXCWOR3NpGmFIsHuliqKvNN/A4PZ5YNtcoumL1X5iLYIPhtdL9SB4M5W
Qw3VLEE2gwOfVBgyvTO+ZYUdqhsZB+r0WDeCFrYal6eqMoVqL1vpJb1JacGK20dT
A9T2JBk10C/9gjK67js=
=bEi/
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

here is the version information, {'idea' is not loaded}
gpg (GnuPG) 1.1.92
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: C:/GnuPG
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Cipher: 3DES (S2), CAST5 (S3), BLOWFISH (S4), AES (S7), AES192 (S8),
        AES256 (S9), TWOFISH (S10)
Hash: MD5 (H1), SHA1 (H2), RIPEMD160 (H3)
Compress: Uncompressed (Z0), ZIP (Z1), ZLIB (Z2)

i do have the idea.dll in the windows system, and in the gnupg\lib
but have disabled the load-extension c:\gnupg\lib\idea

what is most puzzling,
is that (at least for me on the 1.1.9.2 windows binary)
it distinguishes between v3 rsa keys generated in 2.6.3
and in 6.5.8,
does not allow signing with the 2.6.3 keys, but does allow with the 6.5.8

have not tried to sign using 1.0.7 .

tia,


vedaal