Re: Documentation on symmetric key options for GPGME

2013-02-21 Thread Jim Treinen
Thank you for the information, that certainly makes sense. Regarding AES, I understand your point about being compatible with all clients, but for my own education, is it possible to force the use of AES (or any other cipher) using the GPGME library ? I don't see any parameters on the *

Re: Documentation on symmetric key options for GPGME

2013-02-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:19, jtrei...@gmail.com said: own education, is it possible to force the use of AES (or any other cipher) using the GPGME library ? I don't see any parameters on the * Not directly. The usual advise I give is to set a different home directory (gpgme_set_engine_info) and

Re: Documentation on symmetric key options for GPGME

2013-02-21 Thread Jim Treinen
Thank you for the information. Jim. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:19, jtrei...@gmail.com said: own education, is it possible to force the use of AES (or any other cipher) using the GPGME library ? I don't see any parameters on

Re: Documentation on symmetric key options for GPGME

2013-02-20 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 02/20/2013 06:41 PM, Jim Treinen wrote: I am new to GPG, specifically GPGME. I am trying to familiarize myself with programming against the GPGME C library. I was wondering if it is possible to explicitly specify the use of AES 256 and choose a block mode when using the OpenPGP protocol ?