Making it simple

[Leigh S. Jones, KR6X]

My PGP7.04 release produces keys with no hash nor
compression preferences listed either.  It's possible to
influence the first choice for symmetric cipher on this
PGP release.

I'd prefer to see AES(any) as the cipher default, based
on US government influences.  Regardless of cipher,
DSA + SHA1 are the choice for digital signatures.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Butler" <sbutler@fchn.com>
To: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 14:35
Subject: RE: Making it simple


> Finally looked the preferences on all the public keys from the folks with
> whom we exchange data.  Most of them did not have any preference for HASH
> and COMPRESS methods.  What will gpg use?
>
> And, those two folks having RSA keys have no preferences whatsoever!  What
> is the default for this case?
>
> I've set our preferences to be:
>      Cipher: CAST5, AES, AES192, AES256, 3DES
>      Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, MD5
>      Compression: ZLIB, ZIP
>
> PGP 7.0.1 on a Unix box had problems when our preference list was empty.
As
> an interim measure I had set our preferences at CAST5, 3DES, SHA1,
> RIPEMD160, ZIP, ZLIB until earlier today when it was expanded since one
> client was sending to us using AES (even though it wasn't in our list).
>
> Is there a utility that I can use to quickly cycle down through all the
> encrypted files we have received and report back the Cipher, Hash, and
> Compression actually used?
>
> Thanks,
> --Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Werner Koch [mailto:wk@gnupg.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:50 PM
> To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
> Subject: Re: Making it simple
>
>
> On Tue, 7 May 2002 14:41:23 -0700, Steve Butler said:
>
> > compress-algo 1
>
> Hmmm, this should get handled automagically without setting any
> options.  There are preferences for the compress algorithms similar to
> those for the cipher algorithms.
>
> > force-v3-sigs
>
> The options file which gets installed by the first use did always set
> this and 1.0.7 make this a default anyway (and --excape-from).  So
> everything should work fine even without an options file.
>
>   Werner
>
>
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