UTF8 passphrase problem (I think)

[vedaal at hush.com]

Tom Hardy wrote:

> I currently have one home computer.  Two of the keys were created >under
kgpg; only the last one under the the UTF8 environment, and >that's the
one that works.  The two old ones were created under >Windows in about
1998.  
>They fail the same way as the kgpg one from last year, passphrase not

>accepted. 

do you have the IDEA module, and the option to load it, enabled?

the pgp 2.6 key will not do anything that requires a passphrase without
IDEA loaded, (although you can still encrypt to it and use it to verify)

the pgp 5.0 key, if it is an RSA key, will also need IDEA 

(-btw // feature request, 
is it possible for gnupg to alert users with an error message that would
indicate this type of problem, 
i.e., something like:
" gpg: the symmetric algorithm used to protect this secret key is not
available " )

with Respect,

vedaal



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