Thanks. Well, my ultimate goal is to encrypt data, but I don't want to use passphrase to do it as I believe it is not secure enough.
So my questions are: 1. How to create a symmetric key or cipher? With that, I may use another tool to encrypt/decrypt. 2. Can gpg be used to do key based encryption? Not passphrase based. Regards, WW -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Shaw Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: how to create a symmetric cipher On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:52:31PM -0600, 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? I'm a bit confused as to what you are asking, but if the question is "how do I encrypt data using a symmetric cipher?", then the answer is "gpg --symmetric (thefile)" David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
