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@@ -37,10 +37,9 @@ Because GnuPG does not use use any patented algorithms it is not by default fully compatible with PGP 2.x, which uses the patented IDEA algorithm. See http://www.gnupg.org/why-not-idea.html for - more information on this subject, including what to do if you are - legally entitled to use IDEA. + more information on this subject. - The default public key algorithms are DSA and Elgamal, but RSA is + The default public key algorithm is RSA, but DSA and Elgamal are also supported. Symmetric algorithms available are AES (with 128, 192, and 256 bit keys), 3DES, Blowfish, CAST5 and Twofish. Digest algorithms available are MD5, RIPEMD/160, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, @@ -73,7 +72,9 @@ 8) To avoid swapping out of sensitive data, you can install "gpg" setuid root. If you don't do so, you may want to add the - option "no-secmem-warning" to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf + option "no-secmem-warning" to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf. Note that on + modern GNU/Linux systems swapping protection does not anymore + require GPG to be installed setuid root. How to Verify the Source @@ -601,7 +602,8 @@ right, so if you want to have an "almost minimal" configuration, you can do (for example) "--enable-minimal --enable-rsa" to have RSA added - to the minimal build. + to the minimal build. Adding the option + --disable-nls may be useful too. --enable-key-cache=SIZE Set the internal key and UID cache size. This has |