On Dec 23, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 12/23/10 1:26 PM, smu johnson wrote: >> I was wondering what anyone thought of including which block cipher >> mode gpg uses in the -v[erbose] mode. > > OpenPGP specifies a kind of messed-up and strange variant of CFB. Don't > get me wrong, it /is/ a CFB mode, it's just messed-up and strange. > Cryptanalytically strong, just very much different from what most people > call CFB mode.
One of my vague desires for a "someday we'll do that" is to use a standard cipher mode in OpenPGP. It's not a security issue (as you say, OpenPGP's CFB is strong), but it avoids the question, which has a benefit all its own. Maybe in V5.... David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
