On 14/05/18 10:15, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I see that MDC is the default for all modern ciphers, but does that imply >> that MDC *checking* is the default? > MDC is an attribute of the packet, not the cipher. By default, all > ciphers in the GnuPG suite use MDC.
OK, but from Werner's link earlier: > We hesitate to require the MDC also for old algorithms (3DES, CAST5> > because a lot of data has been encrypted using them in the first > years of OpenPGP. So if someone sends me a 3DES-encrypted mail it won't check the MDC? Doesn't gpg still support reading 3DES? -- Andrew Gallagher
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