PGP & GPG compatibility

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Jan 22 10:41:00 EST 2002


On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:28:17 +0100, Gilles Gravier said:

> Isn't it time GnuPG / PGP started offering AES as a standard algorithm?

Since version 1.0.4 all keys are created with AES as top cipher
preference.  The snapshot version 1.0.6c allows to change preferences.
If you encrypt to such a key and your application supports AES, it
will be used.

Ciao,

  Werner

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