I think you are using the wrong command within your gpg.conf file
personal-cipher-preferences personal-digest-preferences These control what cipher/hash will be used when using other people's public key. showpref allows you as the sender to be aware of the capabilities (ciphers/hashes) that are available on the recipients machine. You wouldn't want to send someone for example, a message encrypted using the Camellia cipher, when the recipient would not have capabilities by virtue of their gpg version to decrypt the message because Camellia was not compiled into the executable. personal-cipher-preferences (or digest) allows you as a sender to choose algorithms that you prefer. The firstmost algorithm contained within your personal preference that is also within the key preference list is chosen to encode or sign the message. Preferences that are set at key generation time are controlled by the: --default-preference-list string Set the list of default preferences to string. This preference list is used for new keys and becomes the default for "setpref" in the edit menu. Hopefully that is clear. -- Kevin Hilton _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users