Thank you. As I said in my other posts, I don't want to use passphrase based encryption, and am looking for key based solution.
Also I don't need a private/public key-pair based solution as symmetric key is more efficient. Regards, WW -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Oreste Bruni Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:41 PM To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: how to create a symmetric cipher gpg --symmetric --encrypt The default is CAST5, but you can specify the algorithm using -- cipher-algo -Joe On Nov 14, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Wei Wu [H] wrote: > Hi there, > > I want to create a symmetric cipher such as AES to encrypt some > data, and > think gpg (GnuPG Version 1.4.2.1) may do this. But I found it gives > only > three options, none is symmetric. I would appreciate if anyone can > point me > to another or way to do it? > > Regards, > WW > > gpg --gen-key > (1) DSA and Elgamal (default) > (2) DSA (sign only) > (5) RSA (sign only) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users