Faramir wrote: > didn't include Blowfish because I was told it is not supported by PGP
PGP can read Blowfish traffic. It won't generate Blowfish traffic, but that's a separate issue. > [Schneier] says people should move to Twofish. No, Schneier has recommended people abandon Twofish and move to AES. A lot of people are still quite fond of Blowfish. It's a beautifully simple algorithm, quite elegant, and well-studied. I have a personal liking for it just for its simplicity. The all time best advice re: preferences is "unless you know what you're doing and why, stick with the defaults." The defaults work just fine for the overwhelming majority of users. Maybe one user in a thousand will ever need to tweak them. > What is better, to use S1 S2 S2 codes, or the names? I figure using the > codes would save a bit of space, and since I don't have to keep those > codes in my memory, it is not a problem for me to enter them that way. Names. Definitely names. Much less chance of screwing them up and accidentally doing something like preferring SHA1 over SHA256. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
