On Apr 13, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Bill House wrote: > Surely this is a newbie question, but I have been trying for some time to get > GPG to create a signed and encrypted file. Not wanting to go through the > whole recompile thing and not caring to use the IDEA cipher, it seems to me > that GPG should simply work by default. Sadly, it does not seem to work for > me. > > I created a new RSA/RSA 2048 key in my keyring. So long as I only want to > encrypt, it works fine. When I want to encrypt AND sign, it complains that I > need the IDEA algorithm. When I specify the cipher-algo, it either claims > the cipher is invalid, or it complains that it cannot use IDEA -- which is > it? I have tried all the ciphers reported by using gpg --list-packets on the > exported keyfile, to no avail. Here is the example of my command line: > > gpg --armor --cipher-algo cast5 --sign --passphrase yadayada --user someHexID > --recipient someHexID --output "output.asc" --encrypt "input.csv" > > I am running the Windows version of gpg 1.4.10b > > Where have I gone wrong?
The --sign command belongs at the end of the line, next to --encrypt. Also, what program did you use to create that new RSA/RSA 2048-bit key? David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
