Subject: gnupg/pgp symmetric encryption incompatibility report

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 06:46:28 -0800

the following demonstration of an incompatiblity in symmetric encryption
was reported in alt.security.pgp:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Falissard" <[email-masked]>
Newsgroups: alt.security.pgp,comp.security.pgp.tech
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 4:24 PM
Subject: GnuPG (good) and PGP (bad) encryption

> For specialists only...
> Here is one case where PGP is not as clever as GnuPG...
> The following conventionally encrypted data
> decrypts well with GnuPG, ** not ** with PGP ("bad packet").
> The passphrase is "test".
> Nothing special here regarding algorithms (Cast5 + MD5).
> The thing that I suspect is that PGP does not always
> accept packets with indeterminate length, while
> it's OK for GnuPG.
> (I deliberately encrypted a compressed
> packet with indeterminate length.)
> 

is the 'indeterminate packet length' issue a contrived exception, that
would not be expected to occur with ordinary use,
or is it something that needs to be addressed?

tia,

vedaal

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