Camellia for OpenPGP RFC published

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri Jun 5 11:50:41 CEST 2009


On Fri,  5 Jun 2009 10:43, simon at josefsson.org said:

> Couldn't libgcrypt just map 11-13 to 310-312 internally now that the RFC
> is published?  Sounds simpler than adding a mapping macro.

Libgcrypt and GnuPG are independent; it is purely coincidence that some
algorithm IDs match the OpenPGP specs ;-).  Adding an alias would lead
to surprises like in:

  id2name(name2id(id2name(N))) != N

Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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