Question about history of hash and cipher collections

[Alan Olsen]

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> From David Shaw
>On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:09:40AM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
>> 
>> > From: David Shaw
>> 
>> > Yes.  "gpg -v --version" will give you the algorithm numbers along 
>> > with the algorithm names.  However, the algorithm numbers are not 
>> > really relevant to anything unless you're writing OpenPGP software. 
>> > For years now, all programs have referred to AES256 as "AES256" and 
>> > not "cipher 9".
>> 
>> Version will not report it that way, but decryption errors will.

>Version does report it that way.

Not quite what I meant.  (I should really not post on a Monday until I am fully awake.  Which means posting on Tuesday.)

Actually what I meant to say is that the cypher numbers is actually useful if you are trying to figure out what you are missing from older versions.

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