I think the problem is with the word preferences. The use of this word in the setpref command and in the personal-cipher/hash-preferences really doesn't convey what preferences are preferred over each other. The sender's preferences always trump the recipient's preferences. The use of personal-cipher/hash-preferences performs a verification based on the list contained within the recipient's public key, that the recipient has the capabilities to decode/verify the message, whereas the use of the non-recommended cipher/digest-algo avoids this check altogether.
Its straightforward once someone explains it, however the use of the word preferences on both the public keys and the sender's preferences does not convey any information on the hierarchy of the preferences (with senders > recipients). _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
