On 9/10/2013 6:35 AM, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: > I wonder if it would be a good idea to have an option to combine > symmetric ciphers, e.g. users could state a preference list like > this:
No. This idea gets floated every few years and the answers never change. It's not a good idea. If you look in the list archives you can find some pretty long, detailed writeups on why. > Assuming it takes effort a to break cipher A and effort b to break > cipher b, this should result in effort at least max(a, b) needed to > break A+B. Basically, though, it's "this is a naive and unfounded assumption." _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
