ELG-E key requires IDEA cipher?

[Denis McCauley]

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Mark B. Elrod wrote :
| Hello,
|
| I have an ELG-E key which refuses to work completely with gpg. I can
| encrypt to it but when I try to unencrypt the data I get the following:
|
| gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
| gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
| gpg: protection algorithm 1 (IDEA) is not supported

I'm not sure on this but it suggests to me that your secret key is
encrypted with IDEA.

| gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/why-not-idea.html for more
information

This link includes a download link to an IDEA DLL for Windows. You
should put this in the "Lib" folder of your Gnupg directory, then
include in your gpg configuration file the line:

load-extension Lib\idea

After that you can change your password on the key (to the same one, if
you like) and that will change the protect cipher on your secret key.

Cheers
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~ Denis McCauley
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