More questions about: "gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected"

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Mon Apr 10 18:13:53 CEST 2006


On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:47:21AM -0300, Trevor Smith wrote:
> On 10-Apr-06, at 9:52 AM, David Shaw wrote:
> >Backwards compatibility.  CAST5 has been around it seems forever.
> >AES256 hasn't.
> 
> Ah, I see.
> 
> >It's fine to use AES256, just don't do it with "cipher-algo AES256".
> >Use "personal-cipher-prefs" instead, and list the ciphers you prefer
> 
> thanks for the tip! (Interestingly, vim "knows" all the other options  
> in my gpg.conf file and syntax highlights them, but personal-cipher- 
> prefs appears to be unknown to it so at first I thought I had typed  
> something wrong because it didn't get highlighted.)

Try "personal-cipher-preferences".  Maybe vim only highlights the
longer form of the name.

David



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