Changing preferences

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David K. Trudgett wrote:
> I'm trying to change the preferences for my RSA key to make it use
> IDEA encryption.

RSA v3 keys not have preferences **

> When I use "--edit-key" and "showprefs" on a standard Diffie Hellman
> key, it lists Rijndael, Twofish*, etc,

> *Should have been the AES!

AES != Twofish
AES == Rijndael


> but when I use it on the RSA
> key, no preferences are shown.

yes, thats normal. RSAv3 keys does not have preferences **
at all so there is nothing to change.

> Oddly enough, encrypting with the RSA key used the 3DES cipher by
> default, obviously PGP 2.6.x can't deal with 3DES.

that's normal too - PGP 2.6.x supports only IDEA, RSA, MD5,
but you can get myu modified version wich supports 3DES
and other ciphers and hashes (link at .sig)


** RSAv3 keys that are signed with v4 signature may have preferences

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