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. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users