On Monday, 22 November 1999 at 23:04, Sean Rima wrote:
> Hi A!
>
> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:
> >
> > There's two ways to do this.
> >
> > First, to solve the receiving part, on your end. grab the rsa.c
> > program that's on the GnuPG FTP site (ftp.gnupg.org:/pub/gcrypt/contrib). That
> > will allow you to use GnuPG, to decrypt keys signed by PGP2 (which uses RSA).
> > With that, there is also an option that you can pass to GnuPG, that could sign
> > with an RSA key, that PGP2 would be able to understand. PGP5 should have no
> > problem with GnuPG, for sending or receiving. But, that extension for RSA
> > saved me a lot of trouble with GnuPG. Try it.
> >
>
> I grabbed rsa.c and idea.c and compiled and put to the lib directory. I then
> tried a couple of archived messages available but still it says the
> encryption is unknown. One did say about Not being a self signed sig.
you still have to add a line or two to ~/.gnupg/options:
load-extension rsa
load-extension idea
FWIW I can verify PGP2 signatures just fine now, although I'm not
generating PGP2 compatible signatures. I think Gero's gpg2comp script
will do this for you - just use the gpgrc in the contrib directory.
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