On 4/16/12 11:10 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > However, I strongly discourage the use of IDEA because it is an old > 64 bit blocksize cipher with no advantages compared to modern > algorithms. The only plausible reason to use IDEA is to allow > decryption of old PGP encrypted data.
There are substantial disadvantages, too. IDEA has a razor-thin margin of security compared to more modern algorithms. We have better-than-brute-force against what, 5 of 8 rounds now? The margin gets thinner and thinner every couple of years. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
