Symmetric Encryption Requirement

[Mark Jacobs]

On Friday 19 December 2003 10:41 am, David Shaw wrote:

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> You can get the key with --show-session-key and write it to a file
> however you like, but it is unlikely you will be able to decrypt the
> data without doing some work, as OpenPGP programs use a special
> "OpenPGP cipher feedback mode" which may not be supported by your
> generic 3DES implementation.

Is this special mode described anywhere other than the source code? Is there
a way to request generic 3DES?
>
> Why not just run GnuPG on the mainframe?
>

The mainframe process that we are looking for is by the nature of the
mainframe a batch process without human interaction, i.e. hard for the
mainframe to enter a passphrase when prompted by GNUPG.

Also GNUPG has not been ported to run in the mainframe UNIX or
native environment.

> David

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Mark Jacobs
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