>> What's the rationale behind not going full 448 or at least 256 like >> AES and Twofish? > > Age. At the time Blowfish was adopted there were literally no 256-bit > ciphers in the RFC2440 suite. Symmetric ciphers were all 128-bit > (except arguably for 3DES, where the size is wonky[*]). The first > 256-bit cipher to be added was Twofish in mid-2000 in PGP 7, followed > soon by AES in PGP 7.1. > > > [*] 3DES can credibly be claimed to have a 192-bit key, a 168-bit key, > or a 112-bit key, depending on how the speaker defines "key". > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > Thanks, I appreciate the quick response.
I've been using Blowfish on older machines for years now without issue and I always wondered if this is one of those things that could possibly benefit from an update. Best regards. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users