Symmetric encryption and mdc

Timo Schulz twoaday at freakmail.de
Sun Oct 24 19:22:44 CEST 2004


On Fri Oct 22 2004; 16:26, Kai Raven wrote:

> I have in my WinPT GnuPG preferences for the config file path

It would be useful to know what WinPT version you used.


> c:\gnupg\gpg.conf
> If i change the option
> personal-cipher-preferences S10 S9 S8 S7 S2 S4 S3
> to
> personal-cipher-preferences S9 S8 S7 S2 S4 S3 S10
> and have s2k-cipher-algo AES256
> WinPT still uses CAST5

Indeed I use a default for symmetric encryption A long time ago I
did it to fix some GPG -> PGP6 problems. I will change it so it
honors the option if it is available (or "cipher-algo").


Thanks,

        Timo



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