On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:20:31PM +0100, Sven Radde wrote: > Hi! > > Jim Cook schrieb: > > Does anyone know which type of cipher is used? > > GnuPG uses a number of block ciphers in a variant of CFB mode. > See RFC 4880, section 13.9 for more details on the mode of operation. > > btw, can someone explain to me what the design rationale for that > "variant" is? I did not find an explanation in the RFC as to *why* the > design choices were made in that particular way.
Short answer, it's historical. There has just never been a strong reason to change it. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
