Re: Confirmation of cipher?

2013-09-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:46, j...@jack-brennan.com said: When one signs a message GnuGPG will add Hash:SHA1 or your preferred hash at the start of the message. Only if you use --clearsign. This is here required so that we can implement one pass verification. We need to know in advance which

Confirmation of cipher?

2013-09-11 Thread Jack Brennan
Hello, When one signs a message GnuGPG will add Hash:SHA1 or your preferred hash at the start of the message. However a similar line of text isn't available with an encrypted text block. Is the reason for this to hide as much information as possible from a possible attacker? Is there any