On 09/07/2013 07:34 PM, gnupg-users-requ...@gnupg.org wrote: > Why? Your preference list makes no sense. > >> > TWOFISH CAST5 BLOWFISH 3DES AES AES192 AES256 CAMELLIA128 >> > CAMELLIA192 CAMELLIA256 > GnuPG and PGP will stop as soon as they hit 3DES. They won't even look > at the rest of the ciphers in your preference list. "Okay, Mike likes > Twofish, but the recipient doesn't support it... then CAST5, but that's > not supported... then Blowfish, again not supported... hey, 3DES. 3DES > is *guaranteed* to be supported. The recipient has to speak 3DES. > Cool. We'll choose 3DES and not even bother with the rest of the list." > it is important to understand that the specification i have in MY key is addressed to any party which may be sending to me. I am essentially telling the other party: use TWOFISH as my first choice. Now: if the sender encrypts the message to more than one recipient then ( if i'm reading the documention right ) the selection the first supported option common to both recipients
in the light of new information about NSA and NIST this is an interesting topic new information 2013-09-13 <http://www.propublica.org/article/standards-agency-strongly-suggests-dropping-its-own-encryption-standard>
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