2.6.3i

[David Gray]

Hi Werner, 

Thanks for your response.  Reading on the net it seems like PGP has had an
interesting history and this would account for the disparate versions.  

I've now taken a slightly different approach.  I've created a new key pair
using PGP 8.1 and then imported both into my GnuPG keyring on VMS - all
works fine.  Just need the supplier to try importing my new 8.1 public key
into their 2.6.3 keyring... 

Regards
	David.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Werner Koch [mailto:wk at gnupg.org] 
Sent: 24 January 2005 07:45
To: David Gray
Cc: GnuPG Users List
Subject: Re: 2.6.3i

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:36:18 -0000, David Gray said:

> I was under the impression that PGP could use alternate algorithms?    

PGP >=5 can.  PGG 2 is hardwired to MD5, RSA and IDEA.  There is an
inofficial 2.6 version my disastry which allows for most of the
OpenPGP algorithms.

> of suppliers who uses PGP.  The GnuPG features page mentions that it can
> decrypt file encrypted with PGP 5, 6 & 7 so I guess that answers my
> question... Hmmm, back to the drawing board. 

PGP >= 6.5.8 (or was it 6.5.3?) works fine althought it is not OpenPGP
compatible.

> I'm not sure about the POSIX subsystem, is it relevant? 

No.  I was just wondering how it is possible to build GnuPG on plain
VMS?

  Werner