Re: [Plug] PGP & Mutt

[Morgan Wajda-Levie <mpwl@locke.ccil.org>]

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 08:58:31AM -0500, Michael W. Ryan wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote:
> 
> > pgp5 works fine, though I recommend gpg.  It can uses the same
> > algorithms as pgp, but all the code is developed internationally and
> > no non-free algorithms are built in.  otoh, these algorithms are still
> > available separately.  Check out any non-US debian site for debian
> > packages, as I believe that's what you switched to.
> 
> I'm curious.  Are key pairs generated with the non-free algorithms work
> with gpg that uses only the free algorithms?

No, or at least not rsa keys.  You'd have to download the non-free
plugins.  All the modern versions of pgp use gpg approved algorithms,
though.  Only keys generated using pgp2 or earlier will be a problem.

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