On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 02:27, r...@sixdemonbag.org said:
> because you just shifted to arguing that "since GnuPG defaults to
> AES-256, we need to use RSA-15000 by default otherwise the asymmetric
FWIW:
The rationale why we use the order AES256,192,128 is
for compatibility reasons with PGP. If gpg would
define AES128 first, we would get the somewhat
confusing situation:
gpg -r pgpkey -r gpgkey ---gives--> AES256
gpg -r gpgkey -r pgpkey ---gives--> AES
PGP prefers AES256 for the simple reason that the marketing deptartment
told the engineering that 256 sounds stronger than 128 (according to one
of their lead developers).
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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