twofish keysize

Jan Lühr jluehr at gmx.net
Fri Apr 16 21:14:57 CEST 2004


Greetings,...

Am Freitag, 16. April 2004 20:19 schrieb David Shaw:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:04:13PM +0200, Jan Lühr wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > refering to the source code, the twofish implementation is able to
> > handle 128 and 256 Bit keys.  But how do I specify the size?
>
> You cannot without modifying the code.  While the actual code can
> handle 128 bit keys, that is not a valid key size in OpenPGP and is
> not used.

is there a (simple) patch available? I fact, I don't have time to dig into the 
sources, I just read the comment...

Keep smiling
yanoz




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