? incompatibilty issue ?

2014-03-12 Thread vedaal
Happened to notice a minor incompatibility that was not there in previous versions of gnupg 1.x, before IDEA was included. Created the following symmetrically encrypted message using Disastry's version of PGP 2.x -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: PGP 2.6.3ia-multi06 Comment: Passphrase: sss

Re: ? incompatibilty issue ?

2014-03-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:05, ved...@nym.hush.com said: Is there something in the way that pgp 2.x makes symmetrical messages, that gnupg recognizes as 2.x, and therefore assumes IDEA ? Right. If there is no session key packet (3) gpg uses IDEA if available. Use --cipher TWOFISH to set a