PGP Always Reports GPG Key as Using AES-128 ?

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Nick Andriash wrote:

> pub  1024D/2CDE4F2B  created: 2001-04-19 expires: never      trust: f/u
> (1)  Nicholas J. Andriash (GPG Key) <andriash@home.com>
>      S7 S10 S3 S4 H3 H2 Z2 Z1

Your symmetric encryption preferences are:

  1. AES-128 (7)
  2. Twofish (10)
  3. CAST5 (3)
  4. 3DES (1) (implicit)
  
> I used --version to give me a list of supported Algorithms, but am still
> puzzled as to whether my new Key Pair uses my preferred Algorithm...3DES.

GnuPG computes an intersection of all recipients preferences and the
uses the highest one.  This intersection is never empty becuase 3DES
is always implicitly included.

Ciao,

  Werner

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