learning which symmetric cipher via --status-fd when --decrypting

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu Feb 3 21:13:08 CET 2011


On 02/03/2011 03:01 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu,  3 Feb 2011 08:28, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:
> 
>> is there a way for a program that parses --status-fd to get this
> 
> Not yet.
> 
>> information, or does the program need to parse --logger-fd as well to
> 
> better don't do that; the messages may change.  What about this new
> feature:
> 
>     DECRYPTION_INFO <mdc_method> <sym_algo>
>         Print information about the symmetric encryption algorithm and
>         the MDC method.  This will be emitted even if the decryption
>         fails.

This looks great.  Thanks, Werner!  Can we expect this in the 1.x and
2.0.x branches as well?

	--dkg

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