[89976] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP 5.5 Conventional Encryption: Which Algorithm?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Fri Nov 14 00:44:30 1997
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 97 23:13:05 -0600
To: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
In-Reply-To: <199711140450.FAA28065@basement.replay.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
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In <199711140450.FAA28065@basement.replay.com>, on 11/14/97
at 05:50 AM, nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) said:
>Does anyone know what algorithm PGP 5.5 uses for conventional
>encryption? Also is PGP 5.5 capable of generating RSA keys of 4096 bits?
Well PGP 5.x makes use of 3 different symetric cyphers (CAST5, 3DES, &
IDEA) with CAST5 being the default. I haven't used the "conventional
encryption" (I am assuming that you are referring to file encryption) but
I would imagine that it does the same as the message encryption and
defaults to CAST5.
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