Incompatibility between GnuPG 1.2 and 1.4?

Christian Stork cstork at ics.uci.edu
Mon Sep 26 19:42:28 CEST 2005


On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:23:56PM +0400, Pawel Shajdo wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 09:41:53AM -0700, Christian Stork wrote:
> >     gpg: uncompressing failed: unknown compress algorithm
> >     gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected

> > I'd be happy to provide more details if that is needed.
> What show gpg --version ?

The --version output of the encrypting GnuPG (my oringinal 1.2.1 claim was
wrong):

    gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.5
    Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
    under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

    Home: ~/.gnupg
    Supported algorithms:
    Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
    Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
    Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256
    Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

And I updated my decrypting gpg to 1.4.2 in the meantime:

    gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.2
    Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
    under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

    Home: ~/.gnupg
    Supported algorithms:
    Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
    Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
    Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512
    Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

Unfortunately the problems persist.

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