Most commonly used OpenPGP symmetric ciphers
Atom 'Smasher'
atom-gpg at suspicious.org
Wed Apr 14 23:18:07 CEST 2004
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> The OpenPGP standard supports many symmetric key algorithms (IDEA,
> 3-DES, CAST5, AES, Blowfish, SAFER). I was wondering which of these
> algorithms are most commonly used in the industry. Is there a most
> commonly used algorithm from this list?
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most people never change the defaults, so AES-256 seems to be the most
widely used first preference with newer keys.
for a better answer of what preferences are really out there, maybe
someone who maintains a key-server can run that report.
...atom
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