Fwd: Question about history of hash and cipher collections

[Pehr Jansson]

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> From: "Alan Olsen" <aolsen at standard.com>
> Date: January 14, 2008 11:49:00 AM CST
> To: "David Shaw" <dshaw at jabberwocky.com>, <gnupg-users at gnupg.org>
> Subject: RE: Question about history of hash and cipher collections
>
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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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