Faramir wrote: > Just a question, and I don't have any intention about doing it, but, > is there a way to disable the usage of 3DES in GnuPG, when encrypting?
Sure, the source is available -- the result just won't be a valid OpenPGP implementation any longer. Now for my "Just a Question": Why on earth would you want to? To quote a friend of mine discussing 3DES: > It's perfectly safe. In fact, 3DES is probably the most trustworthy > algorithm on this list. A few years ago when Schneier was asked for his > pick for "most trusted encryption algorithm," he said something like > "3DES. Nothing else even comes close." Sure, use AES for new crypto > software, but if you absolutely _must_ have the most overdesigned, > overbuilt thing out there... > > It's been subjected to withering cryptanalysis for coming up on 30 years > now. It's one of the standard ciphers graduate students are exposed to > in cryptography/cryptanalysis courses. It has turned a generation of > brilliant young graduate students into burned out alcoholic wrecks. I > have participated in bar crawls after getting beaten by 3DES. > > It is big, clumsy, ungainly and slow. It has all the aesthetic values > of the Soviet Realism school of art, and processes data about as fast as > a snail coming off a three-day scopolamine trip. > > And it is still beating up every cryptanalyst out there and stealing > their lunch money. -- John P. Clizbe Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org You can't spell fiasco without SCO. hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net or mailto:pgp-public-k...@gingerbear.net?subject=help Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?" A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"
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