David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com wrote on Tue Jan 15 18:09:49 CET 2008 :
>GPG does use 3DES as the default cipher for encryption. That >behavior >is required by OpenPGP. does it? this is what i get when i try a symmetrical encryption using the defaults: c:\gnupg>gpg -c -a c:\jat.txt gpg: using cipher CAST5 gpg: writing to `c:\jat.txt.asc' here is the output: -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Acts of Kindness better the World, and protect the Soul passphrase: jat jA0EAwMC1u7kYt5GDPpgySjAcWW2AhrskPs0zteJPzScCwtwqsgEYdYQeY7Tq9sQ 4NKAHU4Urql+ =3qDE -----END PGP MESSAGE----- here is the gpg.conf i'm using, in case i overlooked something: ##gpg2go drive comment "Acts of Kindness better the World, and protect the Soul" keyring v:\z\147\home\pubring.gpg secret-keyring v:\z\147\home\secring.gpg no-default-keyring trustdb-name v:\z\147\home\trustdb.gpg #cipher-algo TWOFISH #digest-algo SHA256 #compress-algo ZIP load-extension v:\z\147\idea.dll homedir v:\z\147\home local-user 0x5AA20C866A589A97! #hidden-encrypt-to 0x5AA20C866A589A97 #s2k-cipher-algo twofish #s2k-digest-algo SHA256 # #cert-digest-algo SHA256 #digest-algo sha1 #digest-algo ripemd160 verbose verbose ignore-crc-error ignore-mdc-error show-session-key expert #throw-keyids #try-all-secrets #default-key 6A589A97! it has been my experience that the cipher used for symmetric encryption is the one that is named in s2k-cipher-algo unless otherwise specified, and if unspecified, and no s2k-cipher-algo is specified either, then it reverts to CAST-5 (the above test was done using gnupg 1.4.8, haven't gotten around to changing the folder names yet ;-) ) vedaal _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
