I need help reconciling the two responses below. I am still going to get a test file encrypted/decrypted using GPG 1.4.7 with the owner of said key just to see how it goes, but that might take a while, and I need to improve my general understanding of this entire process and all of the software involved anyway.
rlively wrote: > > > One of our contacts uses this key: > > Cipher: IDEA > > > > Even though they key specifies Cipher: IDEA, are you saying that we > should > > be able to encrypt to this public key just fine with the latest > veresion of > > GnuPG, unless that contact is stuck using legacy PGP 2.x? > > > > If they use a newer version of PGP or GnuPG we should be fine? > David Shaw wrote: > > > Yes. Even though the key specifies IDEA as a cipher, modern OpenPGP > systems (GPG or PGP) will both use 3DES as an alternative if they do > not have IDEA. > > > If they use a newer version of PGP or GnuPG we should be fine? > > Yes. > > Robert J. Hansen-3 wrote: > > This is a PGP 2.6 key, unfortunately. > > > If they use a newer version of PGP or GnuPG we should be fine? > > He is not. There are two different internet standards for PGP. The > first one, called RFC1991, dates to the early '90s. The second one, > called RFC4880, was only officially released a few months ago. The two > standards are not interchangeable, and RFC4880 brings many more > capabilities to the table. > > GnuPG is an RFC4880 application. PGP 2.6 is RFC1991. The two are > generally incompatible. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Export-secret-key-from-WinXP-%28GnuPG%29-1.4.7-to-AIX-PGP-Version-6.5.8-gives-Bad-Pass-Phrase-tp19512637p19532391.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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