Digital archeology -- verifying a signed Usenet message from 1995

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Sun May 17 16:35:55 CEST 2026


> What should I be looking at to work with an old version of GnuPG having 
> sufficiently outdated cipher and checksum algorithms to verify a Usenet 
> message¹ from 1995?

GnuPG 1.4 might be able to. But you'll need Ylönen's ClassicPGP 
certificate, I'm afraid, and that might be hard to find.

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