On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > When the session key is randomly generated (asymmetric encryption), > how large is the session key? Is the length set or does it depend on > other parameter such as the length of the DSA/RSA key or hash?
It depends on the key length of the cipher algo. Thus it is 128 bit for AES, 256 bit for AES256, 128 bit for CAST 5 and so forth. Blowfish is used with 128 bit as specified by OpenPGP. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users