IDEA

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:26:22 +0200


Brian Galbraith <brian.galbraith@bigfoot.com> writes:


> I recently decided to generate a DH/DSS sign only key. I imported the public
> key into my windows system, and was surprised to see that the cipher used
There is no released windowsversion of GnuPG yet. So probably you are using PGP >=5
> If Idea is not considered to be a standard cipher in GnuPG.....why was it
> used as a default cipher in this generation?
According to the RFC it is an optinonal cipher; ask NAI why they use IDEA. -- Werner Koch at guug.de www.gnupg.org keyid 621CC013