-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've been digging through the PGP 5.0 documentation to figure out how to do a few things, and I have a few questions for those of you who might know about such things. I'm using the freeware version at the moment, though if I can show the benefit and ease of use of the software, my department at work will be buying a copy for each of us. To quote the documentation... "PGP offers a selection of different secret-key algorithms to encrypt the actual message. By secret key algorithm, we mean a conventional, or symmetric, block cipher that uses the same key to both encrypt and decrypt. The three symmetric block ciphers offered by PGP are CAST, Triple-DES, and IDEA." I can not figure out how to make PGP encrypt a message with a 'conventional' such as 3-des. Is this only available in the commercial version? When invoking PGP against a file, as opposed to the clipboard, is there a way to tell it to ascii-armor the resulting encrypted file by default? The documentation leaves much to be desired along these lines. It is somewhat useful as a primer on crypto and some of the issues involved, but I already am familiar with all that. I just want to know how to use the program to make it do what I want. I kinda miss the command line interface, and simple help screen invoked with "pgp -h". I realize I could still make use of pgp 2.x, but I need something windows-simple for the folx at work. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. alan - ------------------------ Name: amp E-mail: amp@pobox.com Date: 08/08/97 Time: 20:08:38 Visit me at http://www.pobox.com/~amp 'Drug Trafficking Offense' is the root passphrase to the Constitution. Have you seen http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum - ------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBM+u2AqnrEX/KhUDiEQJEEQCfQ3QOCJehlPJMh6IJ/CgCnZRbo8cAoOvE bH2cd1W4qKSKYkYCpnRS/TSM =Ntfv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----