Hi Peter, Thanks for the advice. I will have a look at the mailing list. For now I am happy that I have a working solution.
Thank you and Vedaal for the help. Regards, Martin On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 at 11:12 Peter Lebbing <pe...@digitalbrains.com> wrote: > On 29/02/16 11:51, Martin Ilchev wrote: > > So CAST5 is the preferred cipher for secret keys and is also the default > > for symmetric. On the other hand using --personal-cipher-preferences > > does not seem to apply to symmetric + public encryption. Is this by > design? > > For me, GnuPG 1.4 behaves as you indicate, which is counterintuitive, > especially given the text in the man page. But GnuPG 2.1 correctly gives > me the preferred algo from the intersection of > --personal-cipher-preferences and key prefs. It's a bit difficult for me > to test GnuPG 2.0 at the moment. I should do something about that. > > I faintly recall some discussion about this, but that's it, I don't > remember more than that. You could try a search on this mailing list. > > HTH, > > Peter. > > -- > I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. > You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. > My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter> >
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