Changing secret key encryption algorithms

Paul Richard Ramer free10pro at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 10:51:10 CEST 2010


On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:40:11 -0700, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> It seems the algorithms are mapped to algo ID's.  I can confirm that the
> algorithm is different than than the one used on my real secret key, but
> I had not been able to find any resources that map the algo ID's to
> their respective names with any completeness.  I was able to find an
> excellent (if dated) resource on secret keys in the process[1].

Page 62 of RFC4880 <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4880.txt> specifies
the IDs of symmetric algorithms, and RFC5581
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5581.txt> specifies the IDs for the
Camellia cipher.


-Paul

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