[Cryptography] Which big-name ciphers have been broken in living memory?
Bear
bear at sonic.net
Mon Aug 25 14:16:17 EDT 2014
On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 05:22 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> writes:
> (Oh, and I filed a request to move to AES as the default in 2011, subject "Why
> does GPG still default to the 15-year-old CAST5 for everything?", so people
> have asked for this to be fixed).
Is there any evidence that CAST5 is in any way inadequate?
People are upset with use of an "Antique" algorithm? Why?
I would be upset with the use of an "Insecure" algorithm or
an "Untested" algorithm. Into neither of which classes
CAST5 falls.
So, I say the burden of evidence falls on those requesting a
change here. What is wrong with CAST5 that people want to get
rid of it?
Bear
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