Cipher Strenth

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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Chris Wheat wrote:

> How can you determine the cipher strengh of the file encrypted by gnupg? 
> (56, 128, 256)
>
> I am trying to figure out how secure the message I encrypt really are.
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use "-v" or "--verbose" and you'll see the ciphers used for d/encryption.

gpg uses symmetric ciphers with keys between 128-256 bit. there's a table 
"Symmetric Key" that covers what ciphers use what size keys 
<http://nullify.org/openpgp.html>.


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