IDEA

[Werner Koch]

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.


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