Twofish, Blowfish no recommended cipher anymore ?!

[David Shaw]

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On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:16:51PM +0200, 1228EB6 wrote:

> > Those two ciphers are not in the default preferences for
> > compatibility and conservatism reasons.  If you want to use Twofish
> > and/or Blowfish, you can certainly update your preferences to include
> > them.
> 
> Can the users be confident that GnuPG never drops those ciphers which 
> may never be supported by PGP (in the case of Blowfish), but have 
> (almost) always been a part of GnuPG ?

I can't imagine a reason to drop them, unless they are broken at some
time in the future.  The important thing is that all of those
algorithms are defined in OpenPGP so you get to pick which you want.
If a particular algorithm isn't available in a particular
implementation, you can always change implementations or add that
algorithm to your chosen implementation.

David
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