Unusual (unintended?) behavor upon decryption of a message // follow-up correction

2013-11-19 Thread vedaal
vedaal at nym.hush.com vedaal at nym.hush.com wrote onTue Nov 19 18:14:31 CET 2013 : gpg: public key decryption failed: bad passphrase gpg: encrypted with unknown algorithm 163 gpg: decryption failed: unknown cipher algorithm (the passphrase used was: 12345) Now here is the last part of the

Re: Unusual (unintended?) behavor upon decryption of a message // follow-up correction

2013-11-19 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 19/11/13 20:47, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: This is still unusual, as gnupg already identified it as TWOFISH, not as an unknown algorithm, TWOFISH was used to encrypt the session key. What was used to encrypt the data is still unknown, since that knowledge is encrypted. (With TWOFISH. Are

Unusual (unintended?) behavor upon decryption of a message // follow-up correction

2013-11-19 Thread vedaal
If the message is encrypted to one public key, and also encrypted symmetrically instead of to a second public key, then the symmetric algorithm used by gnupg is the same for the encryption of the session key to the public key, as well as the session key to the symmetrically encrypted part, as