On 04/10/13 20:25, intrigeri wrote:
> candidate for 0.21, no ticket, merged into experimental, only one
> commit:
> 
> commit 04e39f004930fe34b125b02ba68537d16ebd281e
> Author: Tails developers <[email protected]>
> Date:   Fri Oct 4 10:30:08 2013 +0000
> 
>     Prefer stronger ciphers when encrypting data with GnuPG.
>     
>     Quoting gpg(1):
>     
>       This allows the user to safely override the algorithm chosen by the 
> recipient
>       key preferences, as GPG will only select an algorithm that is usable by 
> all
>       recipients. The most highly ranked cipher in this list is also used for
>       the --symmetric encryption command.
>     
>     Use the same set of ciphers as we already use for newly created keys'
>     preferences (default-preference-list), that is AES256,AES192,AES,CAST5.
>     
>     This should improve confidentiality in particular for symmetrically 
> encrypted
>     data, that until now is encrypted with CAST5 only.
> 
> Cheers,

I built an ISO for that branch and tested it. Symmetric encryption works
fine and uses AES256. Merged into devel then.


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