Thanks to everyone for providing tips, I found the answer at:
"The default symmetric cipher used is CAST5"
http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Operational-GPG-Commands.html
and used the Ubuntu Terminal to list the ciphers used:
Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: 3DES (S2), CAST5 (S3), BLOWFISH (S4), AES (S7), AES192 (S8),
AES256 (S9), TWOFISH (S10), CAMELLIA128 (S11), CAMELLIA192
(S12),
CAMELLIA256 (S13)
Frank
----- Original message -----
From: "Robert J. Hansen" <r...@sixdemonbag.org>
To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:35:23 -0500
Subject: Re: Default GPG Encryption Algorithm (symmetric cipher) is?
On 1/2/2011 12:57 AM, Tiago Faria wrote:
> If it uses GnuPG, then it will respect the rules set by your keyring
> preferences. You can check the preferences with the command:
It will respect default-cipher-preference. Certificate prefs are not
used during symmetric encryption, since certs themselves are not used at
all.
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