Changing my preferences

[Andrew McDonald]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:48:34AM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
[snip]
> The far easiest way to change the preferences is by editing
> g10/keygen.c, function keygen_add_std_prefs() where you find this:
> 
> 	buf[0] = CIPHER_ALGO_RIJNDAEL;
> 	buf[1] = CIPHER_ALGO_TWOFISH;
> 	buf[2] = CIPHER_ALGO_CAST5;
> 	buf[3] = CIPHER_ALGO_BLOWFISH;
> 	build_sig_subpkt( sig, SIGSUBPKT_PREF_SYM, buf, 4 );
> 
> Easy to change.
> 
> The go to the edit menu and change the expireation time for the main
> key ("expire").  This create the new preferences.  You may want to
> change the expiration time back to the old value immediatley after
> that.

I just tried this (to change my preferences to the new default 7/10/3/4).
It worked, but initially I thought it hadn't since the 'pref' command
still showed the old preferences. It did show the new preferences when
I saved it and went back into edit-key.

It looks like gpg notices the preferences when you first go into
editing the key, but doesn't notice the change when the self-signature
is recreated.


Andrew
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Andrew McDonald
E-mail: andrew@mcdonald.org.uk
http://www.mcdonald.org.uk/andrew/

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