way to see what cipher/algo was used to create your key?

[Hauke Laging]

Am Mo 18.06.2012, 19:30:44 schrieb Sam Smith:
> Does anybody know a way to learn what cipher & hash was used to create the
> secret key?

May it be you mix up things? The key is just a random number. It can be used 
with ciphers but you don't use ciphers to generate a key. Neither a symmetric 
nor an asymmetric one. There are algorithms (no ciphers) which determine 
whether a random number is suitable as asymmetric key but that's probably not 
what you mean.


> Also, does anyone know a way to make AES256 & SHA256 the default cipher/hash
> combo for --symmetric encryption? I can create these using --cipher-algo
> etc but is there a way to make them default for if I use this command: gpg
> -a -o file-encrypted -c file

You mean except for putting cipher-algo in your config file...?


Hauke
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