On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 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
Nope, 3DES is the only MUST cipher algorithm and thus used as the last-resort if the preference system can't decide upon onather algorithm. CAST5 is like IDEA only a SHOULD in OpenPGP as per rfc2440. The updated OpenPGP (rfc4880) changed this SHOULD algorithms to AES-128 and CAST5 but kept 3DES as MUST algorithm. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Linux-Kongress 2008 + Hamburg + October 7-10 + www.linux-kongress.org Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users