Hi brian!

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, brian moore wrote:

> > > > Anyone know of a way to have a hook so that Mutt locads the necessary
> > > > gpg.rc/pgp.rc depending on who the message is from.
> > > 
> > > I use one .gnupg/options regardless of who the message is run, and always use
> > > gpg. I'm pretty sure I don't understand what you're asking for.
> > > 
> > > Why not have one gpg (or pgp) config file for all correspondents?
> > > 
> > The problem is the fact that there are a few people on the Mutt list who use
> > PGP2 and PGP5. These keys are not able to be used in GPG AFAIK. I have both
> > GPG and PGP to get around this but would like to be able to set Mutt to
> > choice the correct encryption tool depending on who the message is from
> 
> Then you know wrong.
> 
> GPG is quite content with PGP5 messages out of the box.  For PGP2 (ie,
> RSA/IDEA), you can download and install the correct modules for GPG and
> it will be glad to work with those.  (Though it will probably refuse to
> accept some keys that are not self-signed, since PGP2 allowed creation
> of such, but then such keys are not secure anyway, and people shouldn't
> trust them.)
> 

I have never got a PGP 5 sig to work with GPG. But then maybe it has
something to do with the fact that they keys are no self signed.

Sean

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