The page http://www.gnupg.org/faq/why-not-idea.en.html links to the idea.c
library. This library is not compatible with gpg2. This should be mentioned on
the webpage. In addition, a sentence like "Users who are dependend on using IDEA
are advised to use a GPG 1.x version instead of GPG2." should be added.
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GnUPG 2 actually supports IDEA via Libgcrypt and GnuPG also includes IDEA
meanwhile. Thus the whole idea thing does not make anymore sense.
We may eventually update that web page.
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Yes, please add your information to the webpage, incl. the exact version numbers
and their dependency/relation to IDEA/idea.c/...
For usability reasons, the "load extension" option could check for idea.c
parameter and reject this explicitly in those versions that don't need/support
this anymore. This might be an option in contrast to change all old forum
entries around in the internet discussing this topic.... ;-)
But this would be another bug report, I guess.
Thanks.