Re: [Sheflug] GPG/crypto (was SUID bit)

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> Home: ~/.gnupg
> Supported algorithms:
> Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, TWOFISH
> Pubkey: ELG-E, DSA, ELG
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160
> 
>  Now, I'm sure that I've read that both Blowfish and Twofish are pretty
> secure.
>  Blowfish is the standard cipher GPG uses for emails.

Twofish was designed for the AES competition last year, so it's been analysed 
like anything on sci.crypt (the number and length of the AES threads was 
stupid...huge amounts of discussion went on regarding all the candidates). 
Yes, twofish is secure. Blowfish I'm confirming. 3-DES also.

I'll post results here later (unless everyone shouts "NOOO!!!") :)

Chris...


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