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idea.dll does not work with gnupg 1.4.0a on Windows XP
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Description

Environment

winXP pro SP2
GnuPG 1.4.0a
IDEA.dll from ftp://ftp.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/ideadll.zip

Description

GnuPG installed by following this instrucitons - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/gpgconf.html
No Problems with itself, but i cant use the idea plugin to encrypt messages. I tried 2 Versions of idea.dll
The one i mentioned above, and one out of the nullify package. I tried every possible way to tell gpg.conf that the plugin is there. (global, with complete path, incl. ".dll" and without.)
gpg evertime tells me:

gpg: cipher algorithm 1 (IDEA) is unknown or disabled
gpg: the IDEA cipher plugin is not present

I hope i will find help here. (Am besten von nem Landsman, mein Englisch ist eher schlecht ;) )

Fix

No fix needed.

Release Note

Note, that the nullify distribution is *illegal* and he actually lost the right to use GnuPG at all as per the terms of the GPL.

Event Timeline

IDEA is not supported as its use is illegal in most
countries. Further, there is no reason to use idea and the
required v3 format posese a lot of security problems.