On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 03:00, Dieter Frye said: > 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.
Nope. I used Blowfish back then because it was the only free and modern algorithm. PGP didn't support it. Later, in 1998 we added Twofish and had to do a clean room implementation (kudos to Matthew Skala) because it was not clear whether the implementaion was in the PD or compatible with the GPL. I asked Bruce Schneier during this period several times on whether he would suggest to use Twofish for OpenPGP and his answer depended a bit on his current mood. Anyway, all these cipher algorithm competition is mood since everyone has agreed to use AES; formerly known Rijndael which may have even been preferred over Twofish because of its non-US origin. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
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