Cipher v public key.

[David Gray]

> Sorry I may be missing the point but why does it now show AES or 
> AES256 as a pukey?

>Do you mean "does it _now_ show" or "does it _not_ show"?

I meant why does it not show AES256 and also meant pubkey not 
pukey. More speed less haste I think :-) 



> Home: /SYS$LOGIN/gnupg
> Supported algorithms:
> Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
> Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256
> Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB

AES is listed as a cipher, because ist is an algorithm for symmetric
encryption. It cannot be used as a public/secret-key algorithm (neither now,
nor in future).

Ok, thanks for the clarification. 

Dave