What OpenPGP encryption standards does GoAnywhere support?

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Post by Support_Julie » Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:02 pm
Standards Support for Open PGP

GoAnywhere is compliant with the Open PGP standard. The Open PGP standard is a non-proprietary and industry-accepted protocol which defines the standard format for encrypted messages, signatures and keys. This standard is managed by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). See RFC2440 at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2440.txt?number=2440 for more details on the Open PGP standard.

Asymmetric Encryption Algorithms
Diffie-Hellman
DSA
RSA
The key sizes supported are 512, 1024, 2048 and 4096 bits.

Ciphers (Symmetric Encryption Algorithms)
AES-128
AES-192
AES-256 (default)
Blowfish
CAST5
DES
IDEA
Triple DES(DESede)
Twofish

The default symmetric algorithm is AES-256, which can be changed by the user.
Hash Algorithms
MD2
MD5
RIPEMD-160
SHA1 (default)
SHA-256
SHA-384
SHA-512

The default hash algorithm is SHA1, which can be changed by the user.
Compression Algorithms
ZIP
ZLIB

* PGP is a registered trademark of PGP Corporation.
Julie Rosenbaum
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