gpg with current pgp keys

[Jerome Morrow]

Hi,
looks like the passwd thing is ok.
Maybe the person who encrypted the message used IDEA as symetric key 
algorithm? IDEA is not a free encryption algorithm and that's why it's not 
supported in gnupg by default.
You have 2 options:
- Tell the person who wrote the message to use CAST or 3DES as symetric 
cipher. (Can be switch in PGP preferences)
- Use the gnupg IDEA extensions ( not allowed for commercial use afain )

BTW, is there already a FAQ or HOWTO on implementing this? Would be nice.


CU,
      Jerome




At 13:02 01.03.00 -0600, Marius Strom wrote:
>IIRC there's something on the gpg webpages about doing this -- seems the
>secret key algorithm is stored differently.  The workaround is to change
>your secret key password to NULL using pgp, export it, import it into
>gpg, and then change your password there.
>
>--
>Marius Strom <marius@alpha1.net>
>Professional Geek/Unix System Administrator

Hmmm? read you geek

>Alpha1 Internet <http://www.alpha1.net>
>http://www.marius.org/marius.pgp 0x42C74CBA *UPDATED PGP KEY 2/24/2000*
>
>In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice...
>...In practice, there is a big difference.
>
>On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Gamma Pi wrote:
>
> > Hi all, I just subscribed to the list. I have been using PGP 6.5.2 (on
> > Windows, 6.5.1 on Linux) so
> > far and wish to switch to GPG 1.0.1. The problem is that after
> > importing my public and secret keyrings to gpg, even if the gpg
> > --list-keys and gpg --list-secret-keys work and the passphrases are
> > correct, I get:
> >
> > You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> > user: "me <my@mailbox.com>"
> > 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID 2EAB9451, created 2000-01-03 (main key ID 61ECC81F)
> >
> > gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID 2EAB9451, created 2000-01-03
> >       "me <my@mailbox.com>"
> > gpg: public key decryption failed: unknown cipher algorithm
> > gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit ELG-E key, ID 1BA77AA6, created 2000-01-07
> >       "she <her@mailbox.com>"
> > gpg: no secret key for decryption available
> > gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
> >
> > The OS is CorelLinux (based on Debian). Maybe I am just wasting my
> > time because GPG is not supposed to work in the conditions
> > above. Please somebody help. My next problem will be how to make GPG
> > work under Xemacs/mailcrypt. Thanks!
> >