gpg <-> pgp5

[Werner Koch]

Nicol=E1s Lichtmaier <nick at feedback.net.ar> writes:

> I've had trouble trying to get pgp5 and gpg to interact. Windows pgp5

Sorry, I have no pgp5 for Windows, so I can't talk about it.

> for Linux recongnizes the key, but treat them as Sign only (in the case=
 of
> DSA), or encrypt only (elgamal). What am I doing wrong?

pgp does not support the OpenPGP algorithm identifier 20 for ElGamal
keys which are valid for signtures and encryption.  I have changed the
default agorithms to 17,16 as pgp 5 does.

> I'm trying to push free-software in my job, and they are now looking fo=
r

A Good Thing(tm)

> source code of pgp-compatible software. They have already agreed to the
> posibility of using free-software. Is gpg ready for a poduction environ=
ment?

No: 0.3.2 ;-)  The next release will be better, but we need more
testers.

> We would need to port it to AS/400...!=20

Is it POSIX machine?  I know that the /36 is a ugly machine from
a programmers point of view - Years ago I tried to port an OS/2, MVS,
DOS program to the /36 and it was not very successful.


Werner