On 16/03/17 15:21, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> -- but I'm unaware of any reason why we should not permit using 3DES as a
> symmetric cipher.

Perhaps we should either retire ciphers with a 64-bit block length or
make OpenPGP mandatorily rekey after a few gigabytes of data, so it's no
longer up to the user to be prudent with large amounts of data.

In this stage of the game, it might make more sense to just retire those
ciphers.

Peter.

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