On 6/22/10 10:09 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Is this very old and it's now supported? Or is it still not in for some > other reason (either oversight, legal, or other).
By modern standards, IDEA is not considered a promising cipher. There are some very good theoretical attacks against it. Between the varying patent expiration dates (2011 or so in some countries, IIRC) and the thin safety margin, the GnuPG community has generally decided IDEA is not a priority for inclusion. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
