On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 02:17:23PM -0500, Atom Smasher wrote: > IIRC, 1.2.x derived a symmetric session key from the symmetric > passphrase... is that still the case with 1.4.x? Yes, unless you are making a message that is encrypted with both a public key and a passphrase (i.e. --symmetric --encrypt). In that case, the session key is random. David