Changing preferences

John W. Moore III jmoore3rd at bellsouth.net
Tue Sep 23 23:16:52 CEST 2008


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David Shaw wrote:

> This means that GPG will now
> allow the various recipient keys to "vote" on which algorithm is
> chosen, and the most-preferred one will be chosen.  It doesn't really
> change much that is visible in practice, but it does mean that if you
> have a bunch of recipients that all list a particular algorithm
> somewhere, and most of them have it as their first choice, you'll
> probably end up using it.

<SIGH>  So, nothing changes until a Key is 'refreshed' on individual
Keyrings?

The fact of the matter is that unless someone has a current Key with
preferences then the existing Key will be the one that is used.

I've got a shilling that says 99% of My Messages will still be Encrypted
using 3DES.  ;)

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Tuesday 23 Sep 2008, 17:16  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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