Re: pgp confusion
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 06:36:31PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Is pgp5 backward compatible with pgp2? I have an email which is
> encrypted using pgp5 with my pubring generated by pgp2, but I
> could not seem to open it using pgp2.
>
> If I upgrade to pgp5, do I need to generate another keyring? If
> I do, should I use RSA or DSS for signing and encrypting email?
> If I don't need to generate another keyring, then I am having
> trouble to retrieve the keyring info using pgpk -l.
>
> Also, is gpg compatable with the both? Which one should I use?
FWIW I'm running PGP 2.6.3i and GPG. GPG is compatible with PGP 5 and
can be hacked to support PGP 2 AFAIK, but there are patent issues with
that.
PGP 2 will not support PGP5 emails - PGP5 changes the encryption method
and v2 doesn't support this.
J.
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