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. -- Trust me, you wouldn't like us when we're angry. This .sig was brought to you by the letter G and the numbers 5 & 20 Product of the Republic of HuggieTag
