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Re: [openpgp] Default preferences for the future

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Tue, 21 March 2017 07:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Default preferences for the future
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 23:11, ryru@addere.ch said:

> For RFC4880bis[0] in section 14.2. {13.2.} it's planned to stick with
> TripleDES as least common denominator preference for a symmetric

Nope, that is for sure not the case.  We are incrementally reworking
RFC-4880 and have not yet reached the algorithm selection.  I merely
started that with my proposal to make SHA-256 mandatory.

Frankly, there are more important and controversial things to do than
the algorithm selection.

Thanks for your reminder.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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