skipjack.c in contrib/do-not-use/

[Werner Koch]

On 18 Sep 2001 06:38:36 GMT, Roland E Lipovits said:

> Could anybody give me a pointer to the reason why the module
> skipjack.c is in a directory called "do-not-use"?

Exactly for the reason, given in the name.  I didn't want to remove
tye file to avoid question " Hey, where is that Skipjack thing?".

Skipjack is not standardized by OpenPGP and it is a *weak*cipher*.

  Werner

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