Determining algorithm to be used?

[Johan Wevers]

Henry Andrew wrote:

>If I encrypt a file, how can I determine which algorithm was or is used
>to encrypt it?  Is it the first algorithm in the list of algos on my
>key??

The first algo that is on all keys the file will be encrypted to. If there
are more keys I don't know in which order they will be searched.

>If I update prefs to make sure AES256 is first, will encryption
>automatically use this algo??

If you encrypt only to that key, yes.

>I want to stop having to use --cipher-algo aes256 every time I encrypt.

You could also put cipher-algo aes256 in gpg.conf.

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