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[Werner Koch]

Robert Fendt <fendt@student.physik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> Hmm. I use a GnuPG-0.4 generated DSS/DH key (with GnuPG 1.0). The preferences
> of this key are apparently CAST5, 3DES, BLOWFISH (it uses by default CAST5,
> when I disable this, 3DES is used, and so on). Has this been altered since 0.4?

Yes:  Blowfish has been replaced by Twofish.  But as a workaround the
use of Blowfish does not emit a warning about "cipher not in
preferences" and Twofish is not yet used.  This odd behaviour is
needed to make the migration to Twofish easier.

> Why? BTW: Is there any way to alter the list of preferred ciphers (and a way
> of viewing it rather than "trying it out")? And: is there any way of switching

$ gpg --edit foo
> prefs

and you get them displayed as numbers.

There is no option to change this list.

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Werner Koch at guug.de           www.gnupg.org           keyid 621CC013