private key protect cipher

[Maxine Brandt]

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On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:14:07 -0500
David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com> kindly replied to my question:

|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.

Thanks David. Taking it a step further, is the strength of the session key
directly related to password strength? I'm thinking: OK I have a 128-bit
random-character password to open my private key, but does this give
me 256-bit security when I use Twofish or AES256 for messaging?

Cheers,

Maxine Brandt

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