From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:22:44 +0800
To: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Subject: Re: PGP 5.5 Conventional Encryption: Which Algorithm?
In-Reply-To: <199711140450.FAA28065@basement.replay.com>
Message-ID: <199711140514.AAA28608@users.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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