On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:33:49PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 13 May 1999, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > AFAIK this is not needed. The only compatibility options I have in my > > ~/.gnupg/options file are: > > I was unable to make it work without the --rfc-1991 argument <shrug>
afaicr, you need --rfc-1991 to make encryption work, but not signatures.
> > >Note: You cannot pipe input to gpg and get a PGP 2.x compatible sig.
> > I do that for it.* CFVs and I'm quite sure the signatures can be
> > verified with PGP 2.x.
> > If anyone cares I can provide my generic GPG.pm module for signing and
> > verifying.
>
> Well, I tried many many times and went so far as to ask on the mailing
> list (was told it wouldn't work), never once was I able to make gpg create
> a signature that pgp 2.6 would accept using a pipe. You might want to
> double check that your sigs do work..
gpg --clearsign works, gpg --sign doesn't, seemingly. (ERROR: Nested
data has unexpected format. CTB=0xCB)
(I did "gpg --no-options --load-extension rsa --load-extension idea \
--clearsign -u 0x6494661D --secret-keyring ~/.pgp/secring.pgp \
< testfile > testfile.out")
SRH
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pgpgbrybw4b7B.pgp
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