updprefs command and changing key

Grant Olson kgo at grant-olson.net
Sat Mar 13 00:51:31 CET 2010


On 3/12/2010 6:31 PM, Faramir wrote:
> 
>   Just a question, and I don't have any intention about doing it, but,
> is there a way to disable the usage of 3DES in GnuPG, when encrypting?
> 
>   Best Regards

Doing that wouldn't comply with the spec.  The spec says that
implementations MUST support 3DES:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-9.2

It's the only encryption algorithm that must be implemented, so that's
why it ends up being the final fallback option.

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