Kevin Hilton kevhilton at gmail.com wrtoe on Wed Sep 17 07:41:16 CEST 2008 :
>If I do not specify a personal-cipher-preference >or cipher-algo within the gpg.conf file, >3DES will always be chosen as the cipher algorithm? no for ?? historical reasons of compatibility ?? with pgp 5+ the default cipher that will be used for encryption, and also for protection of the secret key, is CAST-5, not 3DES you were quite correct in your earlier post, in your understanding that 3DES is only an 'implementation' default, meaning that in order to be open pgp compliant, it 'must' be included as a cipher, even if no other ciphers are another things that affects how gnupg chooses a cipher is the option of; s2k-cipher-algo ciphername (by default, if this option is not used, gnupg uses CAST-5 for symmetrical ciphers when no key is specified) vedaal any ads or links below this message are added by hushmail without my endorsement or awareness of the nature of the link -- Click here for great computer networking solutions! http://tagline.hushmail.com/fc/Ioyw6h4fM6mlVMFxTUgurHR7YuVJJ5JCngkiB9TyqrCBaciWWXbNkr/ _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users