Twofish, Blowfish no recommended cipher anymore ?!

Johan Wevers johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl
Mon Jul 14 13:02:03 2003


David Shaw wrote:

>I'm actually a little surprised (though pleased) at how few people
>immediately removed the read-only restriction as soon as they
>downloaded GnuPG.

How do you know they didn't?

>The code is trivial to enable, though it is right
>below a comment from me asking the user not to enable it :)

I just checked. It was indeed easier than I thought (for those curious: it's
just a matter of commenting out some lines in cipher/md.c near line 140).
I checked the results with my RSA key and it all worked nicely.

-- 
ir. J.C.A. Wevers         //  Physics and science fiction site:
johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl   //  http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html