Question abut use of --cipher-algo AES & --openpgp

[David Shaw]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 07:39:07PM +0100, Johan Wevers wrote:
> Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote:
> 
> >*	3DES:           8C 0D 04  02 03 02
> >*	CAST5:          8C 0D 04  03 03 02
> >*	BLOWFISH:       8C 0D 04  04 03 02
> >*	AES:            8C 0D 04  07 03 02
> >*	AES192:         8C 0D 04  08 03 02
> >*	AES256:         8C 0D 04  09 03 02
> >*	TWOFISH:        8C 0D 04  0A 03 02
> 
> I guess IDEA is 8C 0D 04  01 03 02.

This method for identifying ciphers is not reliable.  There are many
ways for a file to be packed, and this method will do the wrong thing
for all but one of the ways.

David