PGP algorithms versus gnupg algs.

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Sun Apr 22 00:38:01 2001


Nick Andriash <andriash@home.com> writes:


> On April 21, 2001, at 3:40:36 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> > Fortunately, only the IDEA patent seems to be enforced actively, so
> > GnuPG provides most (if not all) OpenPGP algorithms except IDEA.
>
> But it doesn't seem to 'include' AES-256, although I do understand that
> it's a supported Algorithm, I'm just unclear as to why it wasn't included
> in the official release of 1.0.4-1?
Hmm, the latest development snapshot seems to support it. *shrug*