Twofish, Blowfish no recommended cipher anymore ?!

Johan Wevers johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl
Fri Jul 11 18:54:04 2003


1228EB6 wrote:

>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 hope not, although one never knows. If the OpenPGP forum drops support,
the gnupg developers might as well (see the Tiger hash :-( ), and with
the plugin system gone there's no easy way to re-add them.

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