Re: [openpgp] Intent to deprecate: Insecure primitives

Ryan Carboni <ryacko@gmail.com> Mon, 16 March 2015 22:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Intent to deprecate: Insecure primitives
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I suggest Threefish. It is (practically) immune to the risk of collisions
revealing plaintext in CFB mode, and is slightly more secure. It's probably
best to use the version of Threefish before they increased the number of
rounds to deal with collisions.