private key protect cipher

[David Shaw]

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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:41:48AM -1000, Maxine Brandt wrote:

> Can someone kindly tell me which cipher GPG uses to encrypt the private
> keys on a keyring?

It depends on which version of GnuPG you are using.  For quite a while
now (since 1.0.4 at least?) it is CAST5.

David
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