DSA and ECC

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> Twofish was added as the first freely available 128 bit block cipher
> and partly due to personal communication between Phil Zimmermann and
> Bruce Schneier.
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was twofish originally implemented in openPGP as a 128 bit cipher?  the
current implementation is 256 bit... or did you mean to say that blowfish
was the first freely available 128 bit block cipher?


> We don't need to add a >1024 bit DSA because it is just a matter of
> the keysize and OpenPGP does not give limits on that. We have not yet
> added support for >1024 bit DSA because we actually use DSS (basically
> DSA + SHA1) and like to wait for the official specifications of >1024
> bit DSA , although they details are pretty obvious.
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i can't figure out why NIST/NSA/ANSI etc are taking so long to formalize
the larger versions of DSS/DSA. i guess in the meantime, one can use
RSA-3072 with SHA-256 (if they're using a bleeding-edge version of gpg).


        ...atom

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