On Mar 15, 2011, at 4:24 PM, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: > David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com wrote on > Tue Mar 15 15:34:47 CET 2011 : > >> would like to see IDEA included once the various patents expire > > As long as the non-256 bit symmetrical algorithms (IDEA, CAST5, > 3DES, BLOWFISH) will remain part of open PGP, and the MDC needs > revision eventually to move up from SHA-1, > > then can the MDC be modified to apply to the non-256 bit ciphers as > well, > (or at least amend the gnupg error message to a less ominous one, > that MDC's are not generated for non-256 bit ciphers) ?
I'm not quite sure what you mean. The MDC can be used on any OpenPGP cipher, no matter what the size. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
