I need to encrypt secret data of the keypair to prevent attackers from
misusing the keypair. I am using 3DES symmetric algorithm in encrypting
and decrypting the secret key. As a s2k specifier I use Iterated and
Salted S2K, so in the encryption process I need the secret passphrase,
the Coded count, an 8-octet salt value and an 8-octet Initial Vector. My
question is: is the Initial vector some arbitrary data like salt values
are? In this case it would be some 64-bit random number. And what about
the coded count value? What affects to the value? I have generated my keys
so far with gnu privacy guard software and the count has always been 96
(65536) in every key. I didn`t find solution to this from the RFC2440. Can
someone clarify this?