GPG & PGP 6.5.x (was: PGP 5.x and GnuPG)

[Chris Ruvolo]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, William X. Walsh wrote:

>>>Well, I don't know about this.  I've had a large problem with PGP 6.x not
>>>being
>>>able to decrypt messages encrypted by GnuPG, regardless if they key it is
>>>encrypting to was created in GnuPG or PGP.
>> 
>> So you're saying that GnuPG and PGP are *not* compatible and people
>> using one may not be able to successfully exchange encrypted
>> documents with users of the other?
>
>The problem is persistant, and anytime I encrypt a message using GnuPG, users
>of PGP 6.5.x (for windows at least) cannot decrypt the message.  It gives an
>error.  I've reported this a few times in the past over the last few months.
>
>This is not an intermittent problem.


I can confirm this problem.  I was one of the people that emailed William.  
I tested it with GPG 1.0.1 and PGP Freeware for Windows 6.5.2.  Perhaps
there is some kind of option I am missing or something?

I have the following settings in my options file:

no-greeting
force-v3-sigs
escape-from-lines
lock-once
load-extension rsa
load-extension idea
rfc1991
keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net

Any suggestions?  Thanks.

-Chris