Johan Wevers <joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nl> >I communicate with someone whose key tells me it supports IDEA, and >since that's my prefered algorithm my gpg uses it to encrypt the >message. However, het setup does not in fact support it (any more, it >used to do in the past). Re-signing the key is no option, this is as >computer-literate as she'll get. > >I have now hardcoded cipher-algo in gpg.conf but is there an option I >can select a specific cipher-algo for a particular key or recipient?
If you have the skills such as Bash scripting, Perl, etc., you could create a wrapper for gpg that could make gpg select an algorithm other than IDEA, or a specific one, when specifying this particular recipient with her problematic key. Cheers, --Paul -- PGP: 3DB6D884 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users