As mentioned I am a Linux newbie (command line adverse) and like many users of Ubuntu they would not know how access details of what the default symmetric cipher is.
Use of the term "default" was provided to mean the one GPG uses without any user intervention IE: Default So at risk of sounding silly, what is the Default symmetric cipher used in GPG under Unbuntu 10.04 LTS? Thanks Frank ----- Original message ----- From: "Robert J. Hansen" <r...@sixdemonbag.org> To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:46:45 -0500 Subject: Re: Default GPG Encryption Algorithm (symmetric cipher) is? On 1/1/2011 11:24 PM, frankexcha...@nospammail.net wrote: > Does anyone know exactly which default symmetric Cipher (Encryption > Algorithm) is used by GPG? Apparently it is CAST-128, but I cannot find > any citation online that confirms this is the case for the version of > GPG integrated into Ubuntu 10.04 LTS OS. Forgive what may seem like a silly answer, but "whatever you told GnuPG to use as a default." If you want CAST5-128, 3DES, AES256 or whatever, just add: default-cipher-preferences [algo name] ... to your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file. To get a list of algorithm names, type "gpg --version" at a command line. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
