getting rid of blowfishes

[cFischer]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 02:25:20PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:

> ElGamal S+E keys are fully OpenPGP compatible and GnuPG avoids the
> problems.  I don't suggest to use them, however some folks feel like 
> it is a good idea to have a fallback algorithm.

so what _are_ the well known probs with elgamal s+e which gnupg avoids?

> Blowfish is a well respected algorithm and has been used by the first
> PGP 5 version.  It is faster than CAST-5 and OpenPGP compatible. 
> Twofish is not yet OpenPGP and not in wide use mainly because NAI 
> refused to accept most OpenGPG WG suggestions because they don't want
> to implement it in their product. 

i guess it was rabbi who said blowfish isn't all that well reviewed.  you
see, the problem with my less thna profound background in math is that i
have to trust the reviewers.  could someone please be nice enough to give a
comparison of the symmetric/asymmetric ciphers implemented in gnupg?

> with proprietary products.  If NAI wants to be compatible to GnuPG,
> they should fix PGP:  I guess they have far more developers than we.

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