Re: Low-level question about OpenPGP - why CFB mode?

"Hal Finney" <hal(_at_)finney(_dot_)org> writes:

> I think this may have been the reason that Phil chose CFB.  As for the non-
> standard "sync" operation, I don't remember why he did that. Probably it just
> seemed to be a natural way of handling CFB given his understanding of its
> rationale in terms of the way it interfaced with the underlying cipher.
I believe it was an implementation bug/quirk, not a deliberate design
decision.

Peter.