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Re: [openpgp] Intent to deprecate: Insecure primitives

2015-03-17 06:47:27
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:09, coruus(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com said:

CAST5 (CAST128), however, is a 128-bit blocksize cipher.

Nope.  CAST5-128 as used by OpenPGP is a 64 bit block size cipher.

Yes. GnuPG's use of CAST5 is problematic. We won't support this usage for

Must be a pretty old version which defaults to CAST5.  But what is
problematic with CAST 5 given that it is one of the two SHOULD ciphers
in OpenPGP?


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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