skipjack.c in contrib/do-not-use/
Roland E. Lipovits
rel@lipo.at0.net (Roland E. Lipovits)
Tue Sep 18 09:44:01 2001
Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> wrote:
>> 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?".
A .../contrib/do-not-use/README.skipjack could help to avoid
questions like mine, too.
>Skipjack is not standardized by OpenPGP and it is a *weak*cipher*.
That a good reason plus a very good one. This line would be a good
content for a README.skipjack-file.
Thanks,
Lipo
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Roland E. Lipovits
Vienna, Austria