Re: Is PGP 2.0 compatible with PGP 2.1?

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From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 20:22

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th2_oate@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Tom Oates) writes:

> If someone sends me a message encrypted using v2.0, can I decrypt it
> using v2.1?

Yes.

> And vice versa.

Almost. Version 2.1 of PGP supports signed human-readable messages.
You won't be able to check the signature of such messages with PGP
2.0, because it does not support this feature. Otherwise everything
else is compatible.

> * Email to: th2_oate@uk.ac.uwe.csd     * PGP 2.0 Key available upon request. *

I am collecting public keys. Please consider this a request.

Regards,
Vesselin
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Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev          Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226      Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
< PGP 2.1 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C
e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de    D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany

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