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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