Patch add support for different algorithms in the agent private key storage

[Kyle Butt]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:20, kylebutt at gmail.com said:
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>> In general, yes. but not always. There are people with passphrases that long.
>> I have a passphrase that long, and had changed my previous gpg settings to
>> use AES-256. It's a minor regression to not be able to use a 256 bit cipher to
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> Why do you think the key length of the cipher has anything to do with
> the length of the passphrase?  What is your threat model?
>

My passphrase has 256 bits of entropy, so this does relate to key size.
Most passphrases don't contain that much entropy, agreed.

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> Salam-Shalom,
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>    Werner
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