On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 07:58:37AM -0600, Amy Tanner wrote:
> Is there a way to get gnupg to support IDEA? I saw mention of a
> plug-in but couldn't find one. Or, is there some other problem?
You definitely need the IDEA module in order to use this key. I
remember having to manually compile the module and placing the object
file in my ~/.gnupg directory. I see that Debian does have both a
source and binary package you could use (gpg-idea and gpg-rsaidea). If
worse comes to worse, just download the *.orig.tar.gz file and compile
it manually like I long ago.
Package: gpg-idea
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: non-US/non-free
Installed-Size: 64
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom at lpsg.demon.co.uk>
Source: gpg-rsaidea
Version: 2.2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1-2), gnupg
Description: IDEA (PGP 2.x-compatible) module for GNU Privacy Guard
This package contains an extension module for the GNU Privacy Guard
(GPG), adding support for the IDEA cipher algorithm.
RSA and IDEA are required to support standard PGP 2.x keys fully
with GPG (RSA only will do for signature verification though).
.
IDEA is also the default cipher used by PGP 2.x, and is required
to decrypt data sent by someone using PGP 2.x, to encrypt data for
a PGP 2.x user, and to sign if you have a passphrase on your PGP
secret key (the passphrase is encrypted using IDEA). NB you can use
PGP to remove the passphrase, copy the key to GPG, and add a
passphrase with GPG, and still sign without IDEA.
.
IDEA is unfortunately patented with big restrictions in Europe and
the USA - please see /usr/share/doc/gpg-idea/copyright.
Remember to add this line to your ~/.gnupg/options file:
load-extension ~/.gnupg/idea
You should see this in your gpg output:
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.6
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, RIJNDAEL, RIJNDAEL192, RIJNDAEL256, TWOFISH
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160
--
Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie
http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr
Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. $(mailx -s 'get info' chewie at wookimus.net)
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