Aside: GPG-1.2 useless

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:04:07AM -0700, Hugh Daniel wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
>   Just to keep my team focused on getting FreeS/WAN 2.00 out I am
> taking the heat of checking out the new version of GPG to see if it
> can be useful to us.
> 
>   Sadly GPG-1.2 still can not do the PGP2 protocol correctly, so it is
> only somewhat useful as a file integrity check system...still.
> 
>   Quickly the failure is simple:
> 
> ahost$ echo "This is a test." > foo
> ahost$ gpg --no-options --pgp2 --armor -r (((your_key))) --sign --encrypt foo
> ahost$ pgp2 foo.asc
> ...
> Unsupported packet format - you need a newer version of PGP for this file.

Are you not seeing the error message gpg is printing?

> gpg --no-options --pgp2 --sign --encrypt foo

gpg: you can't sign and encrypt at the same time while in --pgp2 mode
gpg: this message may not be usable by PGP 2.x
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You can't sign and encrypt at the same time in PGP2 mode.  If you do,
gpg won't stop you, but it won't work, and it says as much.

David

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