I've been using GPG for about as long, and I've had problems with it. They've used some cipher, was it IDEA, than then got removed. So then I had to hunt down

I've been using GPG for about as long, and I've had problems with it. They've used some cipher, was it IDEA, than then got removed. So then I had to hunt down years old versions in order to be able to extract my old backups. Or was that more of a PGP than GPG problem, and I misremember?