PGP 5.5 Conventional Encryption: Which Algorithm?
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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? Thanks.
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNGvd5o9Co1n+aLhhAQHoLgQAkUcOqITnpTidHs5iI0zkCb18pXzH+rjW nR6P8JLpMqUKQkkrYrnJt2ZNz9rwFYeWUu/anS/RmdhY6T7q6PT9cHdxHeYIHL2z TiZBXPyt5t454c39UeG2TtTpPjHfWtXPuwxsEtx26hND4ThqPj2A7cBp6PpnV86N 2H7/BQ9Qp/Y= =OLgN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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