Hash for Rijndael a92 and 256

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Rich wrote:

>   What hash does GnuPG use for Rijndael 192 and Rijndael 256?

I don't undertstand that question.  Rijndael (aka AES) is a
symmetric cipher algorithm and a hash algorithm is not needed.

New encryption packets do use an MDC which is just a SHA-1 hash over
the plaintext and encrypted along with the plaintext wigh whatever
algorithm currently in use.

  Werner
  

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