Security doubts on 3DES default

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Thu Mar 16 16:13:14 CET 2017


> Perhaps we should either retire ciphers with a 64-bit block length or make
> OpenPGP mandatorily rekey after a few gigabytes of data, so it's no longer
> up to the user to be prudent with large amounts of data.

In the next draft of the RFC, I'd like to see 64-bit-block ciphers go the way of the dodo. 





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