Faramir wrote: > That brings another related question: is there any character > unsuported by GnuPG? I ask this because once I was using an application, > and I tried to use "special" characters in the password, but the app > rejected the users saying "wrong password", so I had to use just normal > characters. Is there a chance that problem can happen with GnuPG?
This is a good question, but unfortunately there's a lot more to it than that. As far as GnuPG goes, you aren't entering characters at all. You're just entering bytes of data which it processes to create a symmetric key. GnuPG can probably accommodate pretty much any character set, as long as it's not _totally_ ridiculous. However, if you're using a front-end (GPGshell, WinPT, Enigmail, etc.), then you might want to ask about what character set the front-end is using. If the front-end is using a Cyrillic character set but your console is using Latin-1, it is possible that things could get a bit messed up as the two applications talk to each other. You might think you're entering the letter R, but is that a Cyrillic or a Latin R? The two don't encode the same way. Moral of the story: character sets aren't a problem, but making sure everything is speaking the charset can be a problem. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
