Re: How true can this be?

2008-02-09 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 04:23:06PM -0500, John W. Moore III wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> - Original Message >> Subject: Re: How true can this be? >> From: Janusz A.

GPGee development restarted - need bugs

2008-02-09 Thread Kurt Fitzner
After almost two years of neglect, I've got time enough to start working on GPGee again. I was informed some time ago that work is underway to replace it. I don't see a replacement yet, so I'm going to put out a release that fixes some bugs and incorporates a French translation I was given.

Re: Can you clarify when data compression is used?

2008-02-09 Thread Kevin Hilton
>Twofish is almost entirely abandoned nowadays, but it still exists in >PGP and GnuPG. Once a bad decision is made in engineering, the >engineers are stuck supporting it forever. Is this statement really true or just opinion? Bruce Schneier is one of my favorite cryptoanalysts.

Re: Can you clarify when data compression is used?

2008-02-09 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Kevin Hilton wrote: > Is this statement really true or just opinion? Bruce Schneier is one > of my favorite cryptoanalysts. Bruce recommends against using Twofish for crypto applications. He has never backed off from either of two claims: 1. Twofish is a secure cipher that would have m