On Jun 21, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 06/21/2012 12:52 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> Please don't do this. It's error-prone. Those are machine-readable >> numbers, not human-readable ones. Use the human-readable ones: for >> instance, >> >> default-preference-list TWOFISH 3DES SHA256 SHA224 RIPEMD160 > > completely agreed. > >> Also, default-preference-list is redundant with the other -preferences. > > i don't think this is the case. default-preference-list describes the > default preferences used for new keys. That is, for keys created by the > local installation of gpg, the embedded preference list stored in the > self-sig is chosen by this value.
You are correct. default-preference-list is to give the, well, default preference list for new keys or the list that is set when you do "updpref" in --edit-key and don't give an explicit list. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
