DSA and ECC

Per Tunedal Casual pt at radvis.nu
Thu Mar 25 12:44:22 CET 2004


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At 04:58 2004-03-25, you wrote:

 >> Twofish was added as the first freely available 128 bit block
 >> cipher
 >> and partly due to personal communication between Phil Zimmermann
 >> and
 >> Bruce Schneier.
 >==========================
 >
 >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?
 >
Twofish and AES are 128 bit block ciphers. The Twofish implementation
in GnuPG is limited to the keysize 256 bits.
Per Tunedal
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