PGP Always Reports GPG Key as Using AES-128 ?

[Nick Andriash]

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On April 20, 2001, at 12:20:27 AM, disastry@saiknes.lv wrote:

>> Your symmetric encryption preferences are:   1. AES-128 (7)   2.
>> Twofish (10)   3. CAST5 (3)   4. 3DES (1) (implicit)   Werner

> 3DES is not 1 but 2
> and you skiped S4

>    1. AES-128 (7)
>    2. Twofish (10)
>    3. CAST5 (3)
>    4. Blowfish (4)
>    5. 3DES (2) (implicit)

That's great... thank you very much for taking the time to show me that.
BTW, where did you find that numbered list of Algorithms? One final
question has to do with AES-128, and that being why we don't have AES-256
available? I presume it's supported but just not included in the 1.0.4-1
binary? That would answer my question as to why PGP always shows AES-128
as the Algorithm used on Keys generated by GPG, regardless of whether I
list AES-256 as my preferred Algorithm. ;o)

If I was able to compile my own binary, would I be able to include AES-256
in my Preferences?


Nick

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