interoperability with pgp

[Thomas Bader]

On Sunday, 26 Sep 1999, Boštjan Muller [NEONATUS] wrote:

Hi Boštjan,

> I would like to know how much is gpg interoperatible with pgp versions 2.x and
> above - the gpg's homepage only states that gpg can decrypt and verify
> signatures from pgp 5.x, what about other versions? Can gpg create sigs and
> encryptions so that users of pgp could decrypt or verify them?

GnuPG doesn't use the RSA and IDEA algorithms. So you can't use a key
which is generated from PGP 2.x (PGP 2.x only knows RSA- and IDEA
keys). PGP 2.x can't use a key from GnuPG, because PGP 2.x doesn't
knows the algorithms (in this case DSA/EG).

You can use a DSS/DH key with GnuPG (that is default for PGP 5.x and
above) and you can use a DSA/EG key with PGP 5.x and above *without*
problems; you can verify the signatures and decrypt encryptet mails.

solong,
	Thomas
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