Information on a gpg encrypted file

2012-10-19 Thread Andreas Mattheiss
Hello, I wonder if there is a utility that, when fed a gpg-encrypted-message, will tell me which key is needed, which compression/cipher/hash was used. Regards Andreas -- RIMMER: Lister, we'd be fools not to listen to him. When is he ever wrong? Alright, he may have a head shaped like an

Re: Information on a gpg encrypted file

2012-10-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:53, please.post@publicly.invalid said: I wonder if there is a utility that, when fed a gpg-encrypted-message, will tell me which key is needed, which compression/cipher/hash was used. gpg FILE Tells you the keys to which FILE is encrypted. For an encrypted message the

Re: Information on a gpg encrypted file

2012-10-19 Thread Andreas Mattheiss
Thanks for the reply. Am Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:18:40 +0200 schrieb Werner Koch: For an encrypted message the other information are only available after decryption. I see. Looks like this basic handling info is also encrypted with the unsymmetric key. In fact it needs gpg -vvv to elicit this

Re: Information on a gpg encrypted file

2012-10-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:57, please.post@publicly.invalid said: In fact it needs gpg -vvv to elicit this information: Use --status-fd 1 to get that information: DECRYPTION_INFO mdc_method sym_algo Print information about the symmetric encryption algorithm and the MDC method.