On 09/07/2013 07:34 PM, gnupg-users-requ...@gnupg.org wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Interesting. Would you care to explain your logic as to why you set > the preferences in that particular order? > > In particular, why did you prioritize 3DES over the three AES > variants? I can understand being skeptical of CAMELLIA, as it was > developed commercially, though it has been approved for use by both > the Japanese CRYPTREC project and the European NESSIE project and is > widely available to researchers and cryptographers. That is, it's not > a black box. > > Similarly, AES is an open standard and went through rigorous review by > both government and the public cryptographic community. > > As far as I'm aware, all the ciphers used in GnuPG have no major, > publicly-known cryptographic weaknesses so the choice as to which ones > to use comes down more to a matter of personal preference and > compatibility reasons. > > -- Pete Stephenson Pete,-- I selected TWOFISH as first as that was developed by Bruce Schneier,-- and then not accepted by NIST -- and Bruce offers the source code. as far as the others go I just pushed the commercial ones toward the back:
NEW INFO dated 2013-09-13: http://www.propublica.org/article/standards-agency-strongly-suggests-dropping-its-own-encryption-standard /mike
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