I don't know what all of those do, but generally speaking, if you have to ask whether AES256 is better than the others, you probably shouldn't be forcing GPG to choose any specific cipher or algorithm. In other words, I'd remove most of that. For example:Code: [Select]no-greetingalways-trustno-emit-versionarmorutf8-stringsno-commentsthrow-keyidsNote that you really shouldn't use always-trust, it's kind of bad... but I don't recall exactly why. I don't like throw-keyids, personally, but I don't encrypt anything to myself -- I know what I wrote, I don't want someone who gets their hands on my key and my passphrase to know too.