Session Key algorithm

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:15, Yasuhiro.Funaki at safenet-inc.com said:

> I am wondering that which algorithm is used for the session key in GnuPG
> 1.4.8?

That is all described in RFC4880.

> I understand the session key is symmetric key and  used for message
> encryption, my concern is the compatibility with PGP commercial.

Both are OpenPGP compliant.

> i.e PGP commercial use IDEA but GnuPG does not have it, then message can

No need for this because the preference system of OpenPGP handles the
selection of the symmetric encryption algorithm.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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