Re: Twofish

[uri <uri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Max Inux says:
> >Both Werner Koch and his GNUPG team and the NAI PGP team are planning on
> >putting Twofish (256-bit key) in versions of their respective OpenPGP
> >programs.............. Comments? Discussion?
>
> I dont know about NAI, but from what Werner has said on the GPG list he
> intends to remove Blowfish, which makes sense, I dont know about anyone
> else but I have yet to see anyone use Blowfish, so why not just pretend it
> was not there and just go with twofish?  after AES is done, it surely will
> have been proven.

I second this. How many ciphers do we need, after all? We aren't in the
contest "who can support more", right?

So, Twofish is a logical successor for Blowfish - and let's treat it
like that. If people have Blowfish-encrypted stuff already (which I
doubt, but you never know) - they can do a one-time move. Better
than to carry unnecessary baggage.
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Regards,
Uri		uri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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