On October 27, 2008 at 11:08AM -0700, ueno (at unixuser.org) wrote: > >> Is it not sufficient to set "cipher-algo AES256" in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf? > > > > Although ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf works, I hope an Emacs Lisp variable for > > --cipher-algo will be defined. If it exists, cipher-algo can > > temporally be switched in Emacs easily. Could you please consider it? > > Well, that is a design issue which I intentionally didn't make it so > flexible. I think such a low-level option better be configured in the > central point -- ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf. > > Do you have any real problem with this? Otherwise, I won't change this.
Though I haven't encountered a real problem, I can imagine a
situation:
- User A normally uses AES256 with his decision.
- User B requested to use CAST5 with his group's policy.
- User A agreed and temporally uses CAST5 when sending symmetric
encripted data to user B.
The gpg manual seems that --symmetric (-c) with --cipher-algo may be
used normally. I think a variable for --cipher-algo isn't overdone.
Thanks,
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Tatsuya Kinoshita
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