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On Sunday 14 March 2010 at 1:19:46 PM, in <mid:699cd008-240b-4181-a157-552cbe241...@jabberwocky.com>, David Shaw wrote: > On Mar 14, 2010, at 8:26 AM, MFPA wrote: >> Would "--disable-cipher-algo AES" add anything to >> that? Or cause potential problems? > Potential problems. If you have AES in your key > preferences, but you disable it, you are telling people > to use AES - but then not decrypting it. > Basically, you can guarantee you won't encrypt to > anyone using AES if you disable it, but this also means > you won't be able to decrypt anything that comes to you > in AES. And if my key preferences and personal-cipher-preferences both omitted AES, I'm not using AES anyway, so disabling it would make no difference. Unless a sender is forcing that algo. Is there anything the disable-cipher-algo option is actually useful for? - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:expires2...@ymail.com All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQCVAwUBS5zwAaipC46tDG5pAQq7dQP7BQCUQML5wzN4/z7vmrr9earp0k2ASGRl rgn++oVvF9jyps3Z1yfFHZMW5mVUzndx3ungjZPvOTXTO6BwgUHcSEzb4xB0sUYq g3/jJqV9Jt5Peav1IKBt9OR1U5LWoNI1Mz1pVSAUiLAofAHP/zWdFw07S9u0EY2M DCk7jWZ4BM4= =hhy3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
