personal-<foo>-preferences?

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:50:47PM +0200, alex@FUCKUP.fantastyka.net wrote:
> David Shaw napisa?[a]/wrote/schrieb:
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 02:41:40AM +0200, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote:
> > > How do I use the personal-<foo>-preferences in 1.2.0?
> > > 
> > > Setting it as follows:
> > > 
> > > personal-cipher-preferences 3des
> > > personal-digest-preferences ripemd160
> > > 
> > > gives strange errors when GPG is launched.
> > 
> > Use the same letter codes that "setpref" uses.  You can list the
> > available codes with "gpg -v --version".
> > 
> > For example. a preference list giving AES, CAST5, and BLOWFISH in that
> > order would be "S7 S3 S4".
> 
> This is a Bad Thing to do this such a way. It is the most unintuitive
> interface I can imagine. Some commands accept algo name, while some need
> those cryptic codes which really aren't documented anywhere I know of. Nor
> is the method of getting these. Any chance that we'll get consistient user
> interface soon?

This is one of the things I have on my list for the devel version.
You should be able to use the S-codes as well as the full cipher names
interchangeably.

David

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