About Symmetric Ciphers.

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:

> What does GnuPG use? 256, right?

The OpenPGP WG agreed on 256 Bit.  I don't like it but some folks
might think this is better for marketing.  The probelm that I have
with it is that it requires more of those precious random bytes while
not giving any extra security - there are so much other parts which
actually limit the strength of the encryption (Rubber hose attacks,
Weak passphrase, 1024 DSA signatures to bind the key,...) 

  Werner

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