On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:41 AM, <ved...@nym.hush.com> wrote: > David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com wrote on > Wed Mar 16 00:42:48 CET 2011 : > > >>GnuPG does the MDC by default whenever all the keys can handle it > > What kind of key can't handle it in gnupg? > > I sent messages to all key types, including v3 keys, using the > forced MDC, > (my preferred cipher is 3DES, not that I have anything against any > others, but have been used to using it and see no particular reason > to change), 2 key or 3 key? 2TDEA only provides about 80 bits of security, and is usually not recommend for use.
NIST SP 800-57: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-57/sp800-57-Part1-revised2_Mar08-2007.pdf ECRYPT2 Yearly report on Key Sizes: http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/documents/D.SPA.13.pdf Jeff _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
