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Re: Camellia for OpenPGP

2007-04-23 14:05:46

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I'm replying to this now with my implementer's hat on, rather than  
spec-writer's hat.

I expect that after 2440bis is done, we'll see requests for various  
national ciphers. I'm okay with it. My customers in Japan would like  
to see Camillia used. I'm happy to do that for them, especially if I  
don't have to pay for it. Even if I do have to pay for it, I'm happy  
to do it for them -- I'll just charge them money for it. Ditto for  
SEED, GOST, and any other cipher that is secure.

I see it as a good thing because the people who don't care about them  
don't have to implement or use them, and those who do can do as they  
want. The only potential problem is if you had private keys encrypted  
with one of these ciphers and you imported those keys into an  
implementation that didn't have them.

I see it as a good thing because S/MIME can use them. I don't want to  
be so rigid in what goes into OpenPGP that people who want to use  
OpenPGP but have a desire or need to use one of these other ciphers  
have to use a different protocol.

My products (the PGP family) implement both the OpenPGP and S/MIME  
standards. It would be a real pity if my Japanese product did  
Camillia for S/MIME but not for OpenPGP.

        Jon


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