On Apr 9, 2012, at 10:52 AM, John Gill wrote: > I'm assuming the the signatures indicate, roughly the set of options that my > recipients will not receive an error about ignored preferences. For > instance, symmetric algo 9 has been around for the last 10 years at least. > but if I force it on someone who doesn't have it as a preference, the > recipient will get a message about my ignoring preferences. For systems that > are automated, this message may have repercussions, depending on how they > were coded. > > I'm identifying any recipients in my keyring that have preferences that > conflict with my disabling of specific algorithms and functions.
You don't need to do that. GnuPG does it for you automatically. When encrypting to a particular set of user IDs, GPG ensures that the algorithms and features that are chosen are acceptable to all recipients. In your example, if algo 9 (AES256) isn't available for a particular recipient, GPG will use something else. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
