Re: CAMELLIA

2009-09-05 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 5, 2009, at 5:25 AM, Laurent Jumet wrote: I found information about CAMELLIA. According to this info, I suppose I can assume that CAMELLIA is part of OpenPGP *and* S11, S12 & S13 are from now on, owned by CAMELLIA. Yes, and GnuPG 1.4.10 and 2.0.12 (if libgcrypt is re

CAMELLIA

2009-09-05 Thread Laurent Jumet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello ! I found information about CAMELLIA. According to this info, I suppose I can assume that CAMELLIA is part of OpenPGP *and* S11, S12 & S13 are from now on, owned by CAMELLIA. === Begin Windows Clipboard === Network Working G

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2009-09-04 Thread Laurent Jumet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello ! Is CAMELLIA actually part of OpenPGP? Are S11, S12 & S13 assigned definitively? Is BZIP2 definitively excluded, or is it an option when compiling? In the latter case, why don't compiling with it? - -- Laur

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-24 Thread Doug Barton
Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: >> The AF's conclusion seems obvious, however it ignores a critical >> factor of the Navy's use case. > > The story is apocryphal, so it doesn't make much sense to talk > about the motives of the people involved -- it's fiction. Has every example you'

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-24 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Doug Barton wrote: > The AF's conclusion seems obvious, however it ignores a critical > factor of the Navy's use case. The story is apocryphal, so it doesn't make much sense to talk about the motives of the people involved -- it's fiction. But even were it true, I'd be hard-pressed to agree that

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-24 Thread Doug Barton
again, not an expert) justifies the additional complexity. The lesson here being, make sure you understand ALL the parameters before you make your conclusions. BTW, to get back to Camellia, I had to do some research on this in another context and while I'm not prepared to judge the "

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-24 Thread David Shaw
If I recall, Twofish was added to the spec before AES was finalized. Twofish has a block size of 128 bits, which was needed, and at the time, no other ciphers in the standard had that block size. I don't think it's at all unreasonable to say "Camellia has users supporting i

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-24 Thread Robert J. Hansen
t;)? Sure we do. Or at least, I do. This doesn't explain Twofish, Blowfish, RIPEMD160, etc., etc. These are well-designed algorithms that very few people use, and they're still littering the standard. I don't think it's at all unreasonable to say "Camellia has users supp

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-24 Thread David Shaw
that much whether an algorithm is present or not? Camellia is a good example here. It does not really bring something new to OpenPGP in terms of security. Sure, Camellia is believed to be strong, and some studies have shown it to be strong. But we don't really *need* that - we have oth

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
David Shaw wrote: > OpenPGP benefits from the flexibility of being able to use multiple > algorithms. The ability to use multiple algorithms is independent of how many algorithms are in the spec and in each implementation. Algorithm agility is a great idea and I think protocols ought be designed

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Robert J. Hansen escribió: > Faramir wrote: >> Well, you have always said any algo in GPG is safe enough to use... > First, I've said the algorithms are safe enough to use. I've never said > GnuPG's implementation of them is correct and error-fre

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread David Shaw
e hard limits of the protocol. The semantics are extremely clear, including the places where the spec dictates that the implementor can follow his desires. If I allow (say) 3DES, AES, and Camellia, you can't send me anything that isn't 3DES, AES, or Camellia. If you really really really

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Faramir wrote: > Well, you have always said any algo in GPG is safe enough to use... First, I've said the algorithms are safe enough to use. I've never said GnuPG's implementation of them is correct and error-free. There's a _big_ difference between saying "3DES is a trusted algorithm" and say

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Robert J. Hansen escribió: > Faramir wrote: >> Well, I don't think you are crazy, but I am part of the group that >> likes to be able to chose between several options, provided all the >> options are secure. > > That "provided" is the sticking poi

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Faramir wrote: > Well, I don't think you are crazy, but I am part of the group that > likes to be able to chose between several options, provided all the > options are secure. That "provided" is the sticking point. Small is beautiful, IMO. YMMV. There is an apocryphal story about the United S

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
David Shaw wrote: > This has nothing to do with your preference list. GPG will happily > decrypt messages to any cipher, whether it is in your preference list > or not, as per the spec: Yes, which sort of demonstrates the point that the preference mechanism is just needless complexity. It's a r

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Robert J. Hansen escribió: ... > algorithm, cryppies have a lot of confidence in it -- I'm just part of > the (vocal) minority which screams that OpenPGP has way too many > algorithms and we need to start cutting algorithms out. I would like ... >

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:14:15PM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > David Shaw wrote: > > You have the ability to do pretty much that, but: > > I actually don't, but for policy reasons. My local policy is "have > total control over what I send, but don't assert control over what I > receive." I

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
David Shaw wrote: > You have the ability to do pretty much that, but: I actually don't, but for policy reasons. My local policy is "have total control over what I send, but don't assert control over what I receive." I guess you could call it my small-l libertarian philosophy as applied to OpenPG

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 03:55:20PM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Faramir wrote: > > Don't worry, while I like to change some settings, I also like to > > "play safe". Even if I could use Camellia, I would not use it to send > > messages (maybe it would

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Faramir wrote: > Don't worry, while I like to change some settings, I also like to > "play safe". Even if I could use Camellia, I would not use it to send > messages (maybe it would be interesting to be able to receive messages > encrypted with it). There's no r

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:13:32PM -0300, Faramir wrote: > Sorry to ask what was already answered some time ago, but: why GnuPG > doesn't implement Camellia? IIRC (but probably I misunderstood it), it > is enabled for Japanese version, since they need it. But in that case, > why

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Robert J. Hansen escribió: > Camellia is not yet part of the OpenPGP standard. The standardization > process for it is still underway. Once it's standardized, GnuPG will > support Camellia the same as any other algorithm -- but pl

Re: A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Faramir wrote: > Sorry to ask what was already answered some time ago, but: why GnuPG > doesn't implement Camellia? Camellia is not yet part of the OpenPGP standard. The standardization process for it is still underway. Once it's standardized, GnuPG will support Camellia the s

A question about Camellia

2009-01-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Sorry to ask what was already answered some time ago, but: why GnuPG doesn't implement Camellia? IIRC (but probably I misunderstood it), it is enabled for Japanese version, since they need it. But in that case, why it is not enabled for "

Re: Camellia

2008-06-13 Thread David Shaw
all of them, > > or try only the one specified ? > > > > ( disclaimer: > > *not* a feature request for the gnupg team :-) > > > > only a workaround thought > > for the hackers who choose to enable Camellia now ) > > FWIW, vedaal, Camellia 12

Re: Camellia

2008-06-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > pgp approved version) is that when the session key is retrieved > from the public key encrypted packet, it needs to know what cipher > it is to be plugged into to decrypt Use --{show,override}-session-key: $ gpg --show-session-key /dev/nul

Re: Camellia

2008-06-12 Thread vedaal
o-preference string placed within gpg.conf. no, that allows the user to choose which cipher to use for encryption to begin with my suggestion is *after* Camellia is enabled in a hacked version and unable to be decrypted in the hacked version when the message was encrypted using Camellia in a later

Re: Camellia

2008-06-12 Thread John W. Moore III
> > ( disclaimer: > *not* a feature request for the gnupg team :-) > > only a workaround thought > for the hackers who choose to enable Camellia now ) FWIW, vedaal, Camellia 128, 192 & 256 have been incorporated into the GnuPG Source already. They have been assigned the

Re: Camellia

2008-06-12 Thread vedaal
>Message: 9 >Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:42:19 -0400 >From: "John W. Moore III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: CAMELLIA >as Camellia has not been assigned an OpenPGP cipher >number, >I've picked 11 (the next unassigned number). If Camellia gets >a

Re: CAMELLIA

2008-06-12 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Laurent Jumet wrote: > Hello ! > > Is CAMELLIA implemented in 1.4.9 or should we install a plug-in like > IDEA.DLL ? "Implemented" = Yes; in that it is present but Camellia is *not* Enabled by default. In order to En

Re: CAMELLIA

2008-06-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Is CAMELLIA implemented in 1.4.9 or should we install a plug-in like > IDEA.DLL ? Camellia is not yet defined by OpenPGP and thus you can't use it. There is a testing only option to enable it. However using it now w

CAMELLIA

2008-06-12 Thread Laurent Jumet
Hello ! Is CAMELLIA implemented in 1.4.9 or should we install a plug-in like IDEA.DLL ? -- Laurent Jumet KeyID: 0xCFAF704C ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users