> Purely historical reasons. Also, the SERPENT design team, much like the > Twofish design team, is strongly pushing abandoning the AES also-rans > and using AES. >
What's the motivation for abandoning the AES also-rans? I can see the motivation for not including them in the OpenGPG specification, however wouldn't it be a mistake to move toward one algorithm (or two in the case of AES and 3DES)? I guess I'm just confused how critically evaluated algorithms (as per the AES competition), such as Serpent and Twofish, are moving towards the opinion of being abandoned, whereby Camellia is moving towards adoption by the OpenGPG committee. On the surface, there seems to be a lot of double-talk regarding the abandonment/ or reasons for not adopting some algorithms, but on the other hand using similar rationale to except other algorithms. Since I don't really understand the process of cryptography other than on the surface, I could be mistaken. However on the surface -- mathematics removed -- these decisions seem to be more political than based on proven concept. -- Kevin Hilton _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users