what key-bit length is the TWOFISH cipher in GnuPG?

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Sun Jun 17 23:06:00 CEST 2012


On Jun 17, 2012, at 4:13 PM, Sam Smith wrote:

> Doesn't the IETF openPGP standard call for 256-bit key for TWOFISH? 
> 
> Could someone verify that the TWOFISH cipher uses 256-bit key length in GnuPG?

Yes.

See section 9.2 of RFC-4880 for confirmation.

David




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