On 04/10/13 20:25, intrigeri wrote:
> candidate for 0.21, no ticket, merged into experimental, only one
> commit:
>
> commit 04e39f004930fe34b125b02ba68537d16ebd281e
> Author: Tails developers <amnesia@???>
> Date: Fri Oct 4 10:30:08 2013 +0000
>
> Prefer stronger ciphers when encrypting data with GnuPG.
>
> Quoting gpg(1):
>
> This allows the user to safely override the algorithm chosen by the recipient
> key preferences, as GPG will only select an algorithm that is usable by all
> recipients. The most highly ranked cipher in this list is also used for
> the --symmetric encryption command.
>
> Use the same set of ciphers as we already use for newly created keys'
> preferences (default-preference-list), that is AES256,AES192,AES,CAST5.
>
> This should improve confidentiality in particular for symmetrically encrypted
> data, that until now is encrypted with CAST5 only.
>
> Cheers,
I built an ISO for that branch and tested it. Symmetric encryption works
fine and uses AES256. Merged into devel then.
