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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon ioerror

ciphers in gpg.conf

Open SecTec opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

Hi, I have a question about following line in the gpg.conf: personal-cipher-preferences AES256 AES192 AES CAST5 Why not also add the Twofish cipher?

SecTec avatar Mar 26 '16 11:03 SecTec

As CAST5 is a 64bit block length cipher it really should be avoided. I guess the only reason it is given here is for interoperability (as it is a RFC4880 SHOULD cipher togeter with 3DES MUST ans AES128 SHOULD). Using CAMELLIA as a blessed cipher would make the US-critics happy I guess.

ecki avatar May 03 '16 21:05 ecki

And why not TWOFISH as a blessed cipher? It was also an AES finalist.

SecTec avatar Jun 04 '16 13:06 SecTec