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Re: PGP & GPG compatibility

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Werner Koch)
Tue Jan 22 11:04:42 2002

To: Gilles Gravier <Gilles.Gravier@Sun.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:41:00 +0100
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 22 Jan 2002 16:28:17 +0100")
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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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