Block cipher mode?

[Robert J. Hansen]

On 12/23/10 1:26 PM, smu johnson wrote:
> I was wondering what anyone thought of including which block cipher
> mode gpg uses in the -v[erbose] mode.

OpenPGP specifies a kind of messed-up and strange variant of CFB.  Don't
get me wrong, it /is/ a CFB mode, it's just messed-up and strange.
Cryptanalytically strong, just very much different from what most people
call CFB mode.