Russell Nelson wrote:
> 
> Is it just me, or is PGP broken?  I don't mean any particular version
> of PGP -- I mean the fact that there are multiple versions of PGP
> which generate incompatible cryptography.  Half the time when someone
> sends me a PGP-encrypted message, I can't decrypt it.  Presuming that
> I'm right, is anyone attempting to fix PGP?
> 
> Not to mention anything about PGP keyservers, or the utter and
> complete absence of anybody doing point-source PGP signing.

Although it is broken the strategy I use is to use a 2.x generated key
with 5/6.x PGP versions. This seems to work pretty smoothly.

Cheers,

Ben.

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