Re: how to signencrypt with gpg for pgp2

[Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

>> "Replacing PGP 2.x with GnuPG" by Kyle Hasselbacher et al,
>> <URL:http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/pgp2x.html>, comes to our rescue:
>> it documents a workaround (with minor errors in the first of the four
>> stages). It's not trivial, but works.
>
> <http://muppet.faveve.uni-stuttgart.de/~gero/gpg-2comp/>
>
> gpg.el can be trivially reconfigured to use this script, and it once
> worked.

It does the same thing. A /bin/sh is ubitquitous though, Perl is not.

I wonder why this hasn't been implemented in GnuPG
itself. Is --pgp2signencrypt hard to implement if so many people want
it?



Oh, and the script doesn't like to be used for this purpose:

  (C)opyright 1999 by Gero Treuner <gero@faveve.uni-stuttgart.de>
  $Id: gpg-2comp,v 1.3 1999/10/28 15:19:23 gero Exp gero $

  Important note: This script is not designed to be called from other
                  places as the Mutt mail user agent, especially not
                  instead of gpg from a shell.

-- 
Matthias Andree