I agree that with the lack of understanding. It's been difficult to get specific information from the customer. I don't have the option of saying it's their problem. The GnuPG was a guess after I read something about specifying the cipher algorithm.
The customer said they have a proprietary implementation that only supports Blowfish or 3DES for the key. I'm still trying to find out exactly what that means. I've talked to the folks here at work who understand these things better than I, and all have shook their head. I appreciate your assistance. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax: 509.375.2330 Email: cathy.sm...@pnl.gov -----Original Message----- From: Robert J. Hansen [mailto:r...@sixdemonbag.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 4:22 PM To: Smith, Cathy Cc: Allen Schultz; gnupg-users Subject: Re: Selecting cipher to generate a key pair Smith, Cathy wrote: > The customer stated that he can accept a public key generated with > either Blowfish or Triple-DES. I wasn't sure what he needed because > all I've dealt with in generating a key pair before is selecting the > DSA or RSA option. Our PGP version doesn't offer the DSA and Elgamal option. It probably does, actually; PGP just, for marketing reasons, calls it Diffie-Hellman/DSS. (Long story, but yes, they're the exact same thing.) That said, your customer does not appear to understand how GnuPG or PGP work. _All_ OpenPGP-conformant applications (GnuPG, PGP, and others) can handle 3DES; and 3DES has absolutely nothing to do with how you generate your public key. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
