Multiple issues in GPG documentation

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Sat Sep 13 01:59:27 CEST 2025


Oh, also:

> I've never seen Camellia offered as a GPG cypher option

rjh at sarah:~$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.4.6
libgcrypt 1.11.0
Copyright (C) 2024 g10 Code GmbH
License GNU GPL-3.0-or-later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: /home/rjh/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
         CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

Right there you go, Camellia in three keylengths on Fedora Workstation 
42. It is almost certainly supported by your GnuPG installation.

> so I'm not sure of the relevance of including it.

Camellia is Japan's answer to AES and is included in GnuPG in order to 
better support the needs of Japanese users.

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