On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:42:06 -0700, said: > gpg --override-session-key > 2:1568A79A26ABCB75C294AA07AB73C53A7D168F2B898F93BE c:\r\s.txt
> when retyping, i accidentally changed the last character to an F > instead of an E > and it *still* worked! > should this be? Yes. With DES only the high 7 bits of a byte are used and the low order bit is use as a parity bit. We don't check that parity bit - it is not required these days where everything is 8-bit clean. This is also the reason why we calculate with 56 or 168 bits when it comes to DES. Shalom-Salam, Werner _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
