1.07 RSA support questions (Larry Ellis)

[Leigh S. Jones, KR6X]

I think perhaps that some of your primary questions have
gone unanswered here.  Surprising, because you've
been responded to by some people very important to
the gpg development effort.  Perhaps my understanding
of your question is wrong.  Was it:

1) How to select IDEA for certain encryption events

or

2) How to automatically use IDEA whenever an RSA
Legacy public key is used to encrypt

or

3) How to always use IDEA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Ellis" <Larry_C_Ellis@hotmail.com>
To: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 08:32
Subject: Re: 1.07 RSA support questions


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Shaw" <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
> To: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: 1.07 RSA support questions
>
>
> David Shaw wrote:
> >
> > > 1. When encrypting to a legacy RSA key, I get 3DES, not IDEA, as my
> > > cipher choice even though the IDEA plugin is installed.  I have no
> > > cipher override in the options file, though at one time I *did* have
> > > 3DES there...  Of course, if --pgp2 is used, IDEA *is* used as
> > > expected.  Perhaps I should place --pgp2 in my options file? Are there
> > > any disadvantages to doing so?
> >
> > Yes, there are.  If "pgp2" is set in the options file, GnuPG disables
> > certain options that you might want to use (like sign&encrypt in one
> > step!)
> >
>
> Ok, then I'd best not put pgp2 in my options file.  This still leaves open
> one question:  why would 3des be chosen as the default cipher for a legacy
> RSA key?   1.06 used RSA/IDEA as I recall, while as opposed to 1.07's
> RSA/3DES (at least this is happening for me).
>
> Is this a change in behavior, or a possible bug?
>
>
>
>
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