Lost Cipher and Hash preferences

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Thu Apr 18 19:12:01 2002


On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:53:25AM -0700, Steve Butler wrote:
> One of our clients has a problem with PGP attempting to encrypt a file to
> us.  It simply exists without an error message and with nothing encrypted.
> 
> I looked at the preferences for their key versus the preferences for our key
> and noticed that our key is missing _all_ cipher and hash preferences!

Hmm.  This shouldn't make any difference - a key without preferences
defaults to the safe values of 3DES & SHA1.  What version of PGP is
your client using?

David

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