Verifying GnuPG-signed documents with PGP 5.0i

[Frank Tobin]

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nb@thinkcoach.com, at 11:10 on Wed, 16 Jun 1999, wrote:

> in my ~/.gnupg/options file; however I'm wondering whether this might
> have the undesired side-effect of using algo 1 also when encrypting
> to a recipient who is known to use software that can handle algo 2 also.

You don't have it both ways :)  You can't be guaranteed what software your
recipient is using; therefore, you have to decide one way or the other;
be safe and use algo 1, which has worse performance, or take a risk the
person won't be able to verify the signature correctly, and use compress
algorithm 2.

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