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3des symmetric encryption
Has anyone tried using pgp to decrypt a 3des encrypted file made in gpg --
Or visa versa. I use cipher-algo=3des, compress-algo=1, digest-algo=sha1,
when encrypting. pgp doesn't like my key when decrypting.
Using gpg --list-packets, I get for the gpg-encrypted file:

:symkey enc packet: version 4, cipher 2, s2k 3, hash 1
salt c9daf4fbdf300514, count 96
:encrypted data packet:
length: unknown
:compressed packet: algo=1
:literal data packet:
mode b, created 936383898, name="random.w",
raw data: 0 bytes


If I encrypt a file using pgp, I get the identical symkey enc packet, but
gpg won't successfully decrypt this either.

Using CAST5 (everything else the same) works fine between gpg and pgp.

Any ideas as to what is at fault? -Todd Brooks


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Todd L. Brooks
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yale University
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