Symmetric encryption and mdc

[Zuxy]

Mainly for compatibility reasons, GnuPG uses MDC for symmetric
encryption only if you're using a newer cipher, which in turn means
that the expected repecient has a better chance to have an MDC-enabled
decoder (pgp or gpg).

As for "force-mdc' in gpg.conf, I guess there's no drawback when you
symmetrically encrypt a file only to yourself.

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:43:01 +0200, Per Tunedal Casual <pt at radvis.nu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What puzzles me is that this warning is not displayed if I specify the
> cipher to AES. Is integrity protection always used with some ciphers?

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