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Adding GOST as a cipher?

2005-01-20 16:48:28

Recently, I've been asked about adding GOST as a cipher into OpenPGP. It's needed in Russia and parts of Eastern Europe, where they use it in banking and government applications.

Is there an objection to finding out what the right thing to do is, and putting it in the draft? This really consists of allocating an identifier for it, and specifying the parameters. I'd look to what they're doing in an S/MIME draft for the right thing.

Without this, the people who need to do it are going to push it into the private/experimental range, which is not the right thing, nor scalable.

        Jon


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