On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 04:00:02PM -0600, Wei Wu [H] wrote: > Thanks. > > Well, my ultimate goal is to encrypt data, but I don't want to use > passphrase to do it as I believe it is not secure enough. > > So my questions are: > > 1. How to create a symmetric key or cipher? With that, I may use another > tool to encrypt/decrypt. > > 2. Can gpg be used to do key based encryption? Not passphrase based.
I'd like to help you, but I can't parse the question. GPG uses both passphrase and non-passphrase encryption in different circumstances. I suggest you read the section on "Hybrid ciphers" in the manual (http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html), and hopefully that will help clear up the confusion. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
