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Re: Test Suite - and S2K Detail missing from the spec

1998-03-30 16:38:48
tzeruch(_at_)ceddec(_dot_)com writes:
Which is mainly the way it works, but there is a quirk in pgp5.0 that the
cipher length of the S2K cipher must equal the cipher length of the ESK: 
[...]
If 3DES encrypts a CAST key, or vice versa, the test will fail, but if
IDEA encrypts CAST or CAST encrypts IDEA, it will work (and PGP can't be
requiring both to use identical ciphers).

Yes, that's a bug, thanks for pointing it out.

Hal

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