Secret key storage

Janusz A. Urbanowicz alex at bofh.net.pl
Sat Jan 6 15:38:10 CET 2007


On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 04:51:10PM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> > I tried to manually set the s2k cipher algo to CAST5 using gnupg 1.4.6
> > to be sure that wasn't the problem itself, but that didn't result in any
> > change.
> 
> Perhaps I'm missing something incredibly obvious, but didn't PGP 2.6 use
> IDEA exclusively for symmetric encryption?  If so, why are you using

It did.

> CAST as the S2K algorithm?

plus, there is --pgp2 switch in gnupg to enforce compatibility
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