RSA and GPG

Charly Avital shavital at mac.com
Thu May 13 13:03:36 CEST 2004


>At 7:28 AM -0500 5/12/04, Bruce Simms wrote:
>We are looking at not using E Business Sever and using gpg.  I have export
>my private keys from pgp and imported them to gpg and all testing was
>looking good but I have one old key that is a RSA key that I still get
>data encrypted with this key.  I cannot get these to decrypt and get the
>following errors.  Any thoughts??
>
>[root at localhost pgp]# gpg --decrypt DP003396.pgp
>gpg: protection algorithm 1 is not supported                            
>gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit RSA key, ID 9E51A9E3, created 1998-10-20   
>      "rsa <ftp.frickco.com>"                                           
>gpg: public key decryption failed: unknown cipher algorithm             
>gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available                        
>[root at localhost pgp]#                                                    

I have a few of those old RSA keys.

I believe you'll have to include IDEA in ciphers.

Charly
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