John W. Moore III wrote: > Riddle Me this, Robert; _if_ "The Customer" has a requirement that > 3DES must be used [and they are associating it with their Key] then > wouldn't this mean that the *only* preference broadcast by their Key > is 3DES?
You're assuming the customer's key is correctly advertising their preferences. If their proprietary implemention is a shoddy one, then maybe it advertises capabilities they don't really have. > If this is the case then wouldn't GPG automatically select this > cipher algorithm by default as the only compatible one between the > two parties? You'd hope so, yes -- but I think we might want to consider the possibility the customer's implementation is terribly broken. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users