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Re: Test Suite - and S2K Detail missing from the spec



tzeruch@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Which is mainly the way it works, but there is a quirk in pgp5.0 that the
> cipher length of the S2K cipher must equal the cipher length of the ESK: 
> [...]
> If 3DES encrypts a CAST key, or vice versa, the test will fail, but if
> IDEA encrypts CAST or CAST encrypts IDEA, it will work (and PGP can't be
> requiring both to use identical ciphers).

Yes, that's a bug, thanks for pointing it out.

Hal