libcrypt and RC2 revisited

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:22:06 +0200, Zeljko Vrba said:

> Ugh, I hope that you'll _never,ever_ allow such low-grade insecure
> algorithms in gpg or anything related to it, no matter what the public
> demand is.

For sure not in an application like gpg.  However for certain tools
(e.g. a crypto workbench) it makes sense to have even very simple
ciphers.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner