On Mar 15, 2011, at 11:41 PM, David Shaw wrote: > On Mar 15, 2011, at 11:28 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote: > >> On 16/03/11 10:42 AM, David Shaw wrote: >>> >>> GnuPG does the MDC by default whenever all the keys can handle it >>> (or if the chosen cipher is 256 bits) >> >> Is that 256 bits only or 256 bits and larger? > > Strictly speaking, it's anything with a cipher blocksize that isn't 128 bits. > In the case of OpenPGP, that means AES (any of them) or Twofish. GnuPG will > flip on the MDC when it sees any of those ciphers in the preferences, or > failing that, it does the blocksize test.
Err - meant to say "anything with a cipher blocksize that isn't 64 bits". AES & Twofish are of course 128 bits. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
