Question about syntax of a command

Laurent Jumet laurent.jumet at skynet.be
Sat Oct 31 00:17:29 CET 2009


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Hello Faramir !

Faramir <faramir.cl at gmail.com> wrote:

>  In the hypothetical case I want to encrypt a file, using 3DES symmetric
> algo, and without using asymmetric encryption (the file would just be
> encrypted with 3DES and a password provided by the user), how would it
> be the syntax I must enter? I read the manual, but got confused about
> that...

gpg --symmetric [--sign] --cipher-algo 3DES [--no-options] <FILE>

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Laurent Jumet
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