Mailing List Archive: CAST5 now works

CAST5 now works

Apr 7, 1998, 11:21 AM

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Hi,

just a short notice, to tell you all that finally I made
CAST5 encryption working and it should now be possible to
decrypt/encrypt PGP 5 messages (with PGP's CFB mode). The
code for the ciphers is now more structures and it will be
very easy to add new symmetric ciphers. I should do these
cleanups for the pubkey ciphers too.

I have to write some new test cases and do some other cleanups
before the next release, but you have it before Friday.

--
Werner (finger gcrypt@ftp.guug.de for info about GnuPG)

Re: CAST5 now works [ In reply to ]

hanne at squirrel

Apr 8, 1998, 2:16 PM

Post #2 of 3 (627 views)

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On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 08:21:36PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:

> I have to write some new test cases and do some other cleanups
> before the next release, but you have it before Friday.

What about an option like PGP's -z to specify the passphrase?

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Johannes Kroeger <hanne@squirrel.owl.de>
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Re: CAST5 now works [ In reply to ]

wk at isil

Apr 9, 1998, 9:42 AM

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Johannes Kroeger <hanne@squirrel.owl.de> writes:

> What about an option like PGP's -z to specify the passphrase?

No! It would be to easy to spy out the passphrase with ps.

use

echo "my passphrase" | gpg --passphrase-fd 0 .....

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Werner (finger gcrypt@ftp.guug.de for info about GnuPG)