GnuPG 1.03, RSA/IDEA, and cipher-algo preferences

[Frank Tobin]

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Glenn Leavell, at 10:09 -0400 on Tue, 26 Sep 2000, wrote:

>        --cipher-algo name
>                  Use name as cipher algorithm. Running the pro­
>                  gram with the command --version yields a list of
>                  supported  algorithms.  If  this is not used the
>                  cipher algorithm is selected  from  the  prefer­
>                  ences stored with the key.
> 
> This makes it sound like I can associate a default cipher algorithm
> preference for each key in my keyring.

It does?  Doesn't sound like that to me.  What it means is that you
specify not a default cipher for the key, but a cipher to use for that
session.  That is, you use --cipher-algo in conjunction with --encrypt or
similar command.

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Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
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