PGP & GPG compatibility

[Werner Koch]

On 20 Jan 2002 21:46:35 -0500, Derek Atkins said:

> Question: How many users of PGP 2.x are still out there?  If people
> have upgraded to more recent versions, then it's not quite as bad.
> OTOH, I have successfully interoperated with PGP 2.6 fairly recently.

Things would get much better if a PGP 2 version with support for CAST5
would get more into use.  We can't officially support IDEA for patent
reasons in GnuPG; the next release comes with a --pgp2 option to
bundle all the options needed for pgp 2 cmpatibility and furthermore
you will get a warning if a message can't be encrypted in a PGP2
compatible way.  

There is a pgp 2 version by Disastry (http://disastry.dhs.org/pgp)
which support all OpenPGP defined ciphers. 

  Werner

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