Information on a gpg encrypted file

[Andreas Mattheiss]

Thanks for the reply.

Am Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:18:40 +0200 schrieb Werner Koch:

> For an encrypted message
> the other information are only available after decryption.
> 

I see. Looks like this basic "handling info" is also encrypted with the
unsymmetric key. 

In fact it needs gpg -vvv to elicit this information:

...
gpg: TWOFISH encrypted data
:compressed packet: algo=3
...

Reason for asking was because I played around a bit with the
compression/cipher preferences in my public key and wanted to see if it
actually uses say TWOFISH if I put it to the top of the queue of
acceptable ciphers. It does.

Thanks, regards
Andreas

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