Enigmail with CryptoEx

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Fri Aug 1 10:42:02 2003


On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:24:36 +0200, Holger Sesterhenn said:

> - recipients key has no IDEA in his preferences (just CAST5, 3DES, AES) !

-> CryptoEx creates a mail with IDEA as symmetric algo

> => GnuPG without patches is not able to decrypt such message!

> Seems to me that "OpenPGP compatible" is nothing more than a slogan :-(

Clearly CryptoEx isn't OpenPGP compatible because it does not honor
the preferences.

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