blowfish in gnuPG 1.0.6 =? 256 bit

Bob Mathews bobmathews@mindspring.com
Sat Mar 9 23:39:01 2002


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On Saturday 09 March 2002 01:28 pm, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Saturday 09 March 2002 12:55, uwe puchta wrote:
> > just a question out of curiosity:
> > what's the key size for Blowfish encryption?
> > is it 256 bit?
> > ... for both cipher-algo and s2k-cipher-algo
> > (if defined so in the options file or at the
> > command line)
>
> <snip>
>
> http://www.counterpane.com/blowfish.html

That page says that blowfish has a variable length key. However, according to 
RFC2440, OpenPGP uses blowfish with a 128-bit key. That applies to both the 
- --cipher-algo and --s2k-cipher-algo options.

 -bob mathews

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