Symmetric encryption and mdc

[Timo Schulz]

On Sun Oct 24 2004; 21:41, Kai Raven wrote:

> Mmh, i think cipher-ago is not a good idea, because it is not so
> flexible as the first mentioned ID in personal-cipher-preferences or
> secondary the name with s2k-cipher-algo. I mean, if somebody uses GnuPG
> for public key crypto without WinPT...

What I wanted to say is, that I will disable the CAST5 cipher force
if I found an option in the gpg.conf which would override it.

And for WinPT this is only a problem when you use symmetric encryption.
I guess most of the time, people use public-key encryption.


        Timo

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