PGP Always Reports GPG Key as Using AES-128 ?

[Stefan H. Holek]

Nick!

Take your key to http://xdv.org/pgpdump/
for a more verbose packet listing than gpg
will give you. Furthermore, there is AFAIK no
way to change the preferred sym algs in gpg
short of modifying the source.

Regards,
Stefan


--On Donnerstag, 19. April 2001 02:55 -0700 Nick Andriash 
<andriash@home.com> wrote:

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> On April 19, 2001, at 2:40:09 AM, Nick Andriash wrote:
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>> Also, what is the equivalent command in a DOS Box to show me the
>> properties of my newly generated Key Pair?
>
> Ok, I used the command "pref" to list my Preferences:
>
> Command> pref
> pub  1024D/2CDE4F2B  created: 2001-04-19 expires: never      trust: f/u
> (1)  Nicholas J. Andriash (GPG Key) <andriash@home.com>
>      S7 S10 S3 S4 H3 H2 Z2 Z1
>
> but be darned if I can find information on how to interpret the last
> line. I used --version to give me a list of supported Algorithms, but
> am still puzzled as to whether my new Key Pair uses my preferred
> Algorithm...3DES.
>
> Home: c:/gnupg
> Supported algorithms:
> Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, RIJNDAEL, RIJNDAEL192,
> RIJNDAEL256, TWOFISH
>
> Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160
>
>
>
> Nick
>
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