Camellia

[John W. Moore III]

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vedaal at hush.com wrote:

> how hard would it be to write a patch for an option of 
> --try-all-symmetrics
> or
> --use-symmetric-name
> that would ignore the cipher number and try all of them,
> or try only the one specified ?
> 
> ( disclaimer:
> *not* a feature request for the gnupg team :-)
> 
> only a workaround thought 
> for the hackers who choose to enable Camellia now ) 

FWIW, vedaal, Camellia 128, 192 & 256 have been incorporated into the
GnuPG Source already.  They have been assigned the placeholders S11, S12
& S13 respectively.  There are already 'hackers' [risk takers?] who have
built GnuPG with these algorithms enabled. [Werner, David & Marcus
collectively shudder]

Until such time as these Algorithms are included in the 'preferences' on
One's Key and that Key is disseminated there is no real 'danger';
however, once the Key is in circulation with those preferences listed on
it then should the placeholder values later be changed and a Sender
fails to 'refresh' Your Key from a reliable source then potential
confusion could exist. :-\

I may be mis-reading Your question.  Upon re-reading I am of the opinion
that what You desire may already be covered with use of the
preferred-algo-preference string placed within gpg.conf.

Anyway, just My 2 cents and I shall wait until I am clearer on what You
are suggesting.

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Thursday 12 Jun 2008, 13:38  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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