Compatibility

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Saylor wrote:

> It's a long story. Blowfish is a fast and secure [so far]
> algorithm. You'd have to ask NAI why they don't implement it.

For encryption it is relly simple:  If you encrypt for a key, an
OpenPGP implemenation does an intersection between the list of
algorithm it implements and the ones foun in the key of the recipient.
This intersection will never be empty becuase 3DES is implicty
available.

So, if you created a key with a preference including Blowfish, any
OpenPGP implemenation may decide to use Blowfish for encryption.

Yes, I know, there should be a more easy way to change preferences,
without editing gpg source.

Preferences don't work with signatures of course.

  Werner
 
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