$ mkdir ~/.gnupg
$ cat > ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf << !
no-emit-version
no-comments
keyid-format 0xlong
with-fingerprint
use-agent
personal-cipher-preferences AES256 AES192 AES CAST5
personal-digest-preferences SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224
cert-digest-algo SHA512
default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224 AES256 AES192 AES CAST5 ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP Uncompressed
!