Weak encryption keys

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Tue Mar 23 14:44:51 CET 2021


On Dienstag, 23. März 2021 14:31:00 CET jsmith9810--- via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Interestingly, when I tried searching the latest GnuPG code base (cloned
> from github) for the "Weak encryption key" error message, nothing showed
> up.
> 
> $ "grep -iRl "Weak encryption key" gnupg
> <no matches>

It's defined in the separate libgpg-error library. It corresponds to the 
symbol GPG_ERR_WEAK_KEY. This symbol occurs in libgcrypt (the low-level crypto 
library of GnuPG), e.g. in blowfish.c, and in gnupg.

Regards,
Ingo
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