Future inclusion of Threefish in Gnupg?

Sin Trenton sin.trenton at riseup.net
Thu May 15 10:51:08 CEST 2014


On 2014-05-14 21:40, David Shaw wrote:
> On May 14, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Sin Trenton <sin.trenton at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Just out of curiousity, are there any plans for including Threefish into GnuPG?
>> Or does it have to be incorprorated into the OpenPGP standard first and *then* perhaps baked into GnuPG?
>
> Yes.  GnuPG follows the OpenPGP standard, so any new algorithms would need to go through that process first.
>
> David
>
>

As I suspected. Time to join a lobbying group, then. ;)
Thank you.

Sin T.



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