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Re: [openpgp] Proposal to include AEAD OCB mode to 4880bis

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Mon, 30 October 2017 18:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Proposal to include AEAD OCB mode to 4880bis
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On Oct 30, 2017, at 19:29, Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hi Derek,
> 
>> 
>> I have files encrypted 20+ years ago (to a 20+ year old key) sitting
>> around in storage.  Are you saying that those encrypted files should not
>> be readable anymore?

So when do we stop supporting an algorithm? When it can be brute forces in a month? A year ? A day?


> One might question if current-day crypto software should continue to
> support old encrypted files though, or that a fork would be wiser.

Like pgp 2.6 and pgp 5. Yes.

A way to also stimulate upgrading could be to demote algorithms to decrypt/verify only and not allow them for creating new encrypted/signed material.

As for we have been doing this for  20 years argument, I am still carrying idea.c and still have to manually compile it every time gpg upgrades. So the “current” scheme has proven to not work well at all for me.

Paul

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