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[John Clizbe]

vedaal at hush.com wrote:
> was checking the key preferences in gnupg 1.4.2.2(MingW32)
> with the SHOWPREF command,
> and found all the algorithms listed except for twofish
> 
> the key accepts and decrypts messages done in twofish,
> and works fine
> 
> have tested this for many of the keys and none of them display 
> twofish in the preferences
> 
> don't remember which version of gnupg did list twofish,
> because i don't use showpref that often
> 
> is there anything new about new gnupg key-preferences that would 
> explain this ?

It doesn't show up because it's not on the key's preference list. If you want a
list of supported algorithms use --version

C:\WINDOWS>gpg --edit-key 0x7ee6202d showpref
Secret key is available.

pub  2048R/7EE6202D  created: 2004-10-20  expires: never       usage: SCE
                     trust: ultimate      validity: ultimate
[ultimate] (1). test key (test RSA S&E key) <noone at nowhere.org>

[ultimate] (1). test key (test RSA S&E key) <noone at nowhere.org>
     Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, CAST5, 3DES, IDEA
     Digest: SHA1, RIPEMD160
     Compression: ZLIB, ZIP, Uncompressed
     Features: MDC, Keyserver no-modify

Command> setpref aes256 aes192 aes cast5 3des twofish blowfish idea sha256 sha1
ripemd160 bzip2 zlib zip
Set preference list to:
     Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, CAST5, 3DES, TWOFISH, BLOWFISH, IDEA
     Digest: SHA256, SHA1, RIPEMD160
     Compression: BZIP2, ZLIB, ZIP, Uncompressed
     Features: MDC, Keyserver no-modify
Really update the preferences? (y/N) y

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "test key (test RSA S&E key) <noone at nowhere.org>"
2048-bit RSA key, ID 7EE6202D, created 2004-10-20


pub  2048R/7EE6202D  created: 2004-10-20  expires: never       usage: SCE
                     trust: ultimate      validity: ultimate
[ultimate] (1). test key (test RSA S&E key) <noone at nowhere.org>

Command> showpref
[ultimate] (1). test key (test RSA S&E key) <noone at nowhere.org>
     Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, CAST5, 3DES, TWOFISH, BLOWFISH, IDEA
     Digest: SHA256, SHA1, RIPEMD160
     Compression: BZIP2, ZLIB, ZIP, Uncompressed
     Features: MDC, Keyserver no-modify

Command>quit

C:\WINDOWS>gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.3-cvs-curl-4079-2006-03-22
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: C:/Documents and Settings/<username>/Application Data/GnuPG
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

C:\WINDOWS>
-- 
John P. Clizbe                   Inet:   JPClizbe(a)comcast DOT nyet
Golden Bear Networks             PGP/GPG KeyID: 0x608D2A10
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