how to create a symmetric cipher

[Wei Wu [H]]

Thank you. As I said in my other posts, I don't want to use passphrase based
encryption, and am looking for key based solution.

Also I don't need a private/public key-pair based solution as symmetric key
is more efficient.

Regards,
WW


-----Original Message-----
From: gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org [mailto:gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org]
On Behalf Of Joseph Oreste Bruni
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:41 PM
To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
Subject: Re: how to create a symmetric cipher 

gpg --symmetric --encrypt

The default is CAST5, but you can specify the algorithm using -- 
cipher-algo

-Joe


On Nov 14, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Wei Wu [H] wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I want to create a symmetric cipher such as AES to encrypt some  
> data, and
> think gpg (GnuPG Version 1.4.2.1) may do this. But I found it gives  
> only
> three options, none is symmetric. I would appreciate if anyone can  
> point me
> to another or way to do it?
>
> Regards,
> WW
>
> gpg --gen-key
>    (1) DSA and Elgamal (default)
>    (2) DSA (sign only)
>    (5) RSA (sign only)
>
>
>
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