gpg bug decrypting conventionally encrypted messages

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, L. Sassaman wrote:

>    encrypted.  If no packets of these types precede the encrypted data,
>    the IDEA algorithm is used with the session key calculated as the
>    MD5 hash of the passphrase.

I think I should implement it when it is in the draft.  Due to the
patent problems there is no IDEA support.  The symmetric encryption
was the first piece I wrote and I replaced IDEA by BLowfish - even
before I know about OpenPGP and the new packets.  I guess that is
the reason that there is no support for this.  I will test whether
IDEA is available and then use it instead of the default cipher -
using MD5 should be no problem at all.

  Werner


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