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GPG symmetric encryption is using old OpenPGP packet formats
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The following command:

gpg --s2k-digest-algo SHA256 --s2k-cipher-algo AES256 -c myfile

is used to create a symmetrically encrypted file.

The output, however, seems to utilize old OpenPGP format packets. For example,

gpg --list-packets --verbose myfile.gpg

results in:

#off=0 ctb=8c tag=3 hlen=2 plen=13
:symkey enc packet: version 4, cipher 9, s2k 3, hash 8
salt 367FDD829963CC11, count 4194304 (192)

which, to my understanding, denotes an old format packet (ctb=8c, not cc)

I cannot locate a configuration option which might be causing the old OpenPGP format to be used. I also can't find a setting which might enable use of the new OpenPGP format.

Is this behavior as expected?

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2.2.15

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lellis created this task.Sep 10 2019, 10:38 PM
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Yes.

There is no need to use the new CTB format for a packet with tag 3. OpenPGP implementations need to support all packet header encodings. We do not plan to make this configurable.