Thanks to all who responded. It looks like we are making the decision to dump IDEA as it's not an officially supported cipher in our environment.
Regards, Marshall >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Zullinger >Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:47 PM >To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org >Subject: Re: IDEA > >McDougall, Marshall (STEM) wrote: >> Hi All. >> >> First post....be gentle :-} >> >> I have a RHEL server and I am having difficulty decrypting a pgp >> encrypted file. Near as I can tell, I need the IDEA cipher. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg --decrypt myfile.txt >> gpg: protection algorithm 1 (IDEA) is not supported >> gpg: the IDEA cipher plugin is not present >> gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/why-not-idea.html for more >> information >> gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit RSA key, ID C0A298D3, created 2004-07-13 >> "one_of_my_keys" >> gpg: public key decryption failed: unknown cipher algorithm >> gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available >> >> I roamed around the GNUPG site and found the "idea.c.gz" >downloads, but >> the instructions allude to directories that don't exist on my server. >> Has anyone added IDEA to an existing canned redhat >installation? I am >> open to any suggestion. Thanks. > >You can rebuild the gnupg srpm and add idea. A few small changes to >the spec file (like in the attached diff) should do what you want. > >A better solution would be to have sender encrypt the file to you >using a cipher that you can use without any patents or other >encumbrances. Does your key have a cipher pref for IDEA? If so, you >should fix that so other people don't encrypt things to you that you >can't easily decrypt. You can view your prefs with: > >$ gpg --edit-key C0A298D3 showpref quit > >-- >Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >I never met a morphosis I didn't like. > > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
