twofish keysize

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Sat Apr 17 04:19:29 CEST 2004


On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:14:57PM +0200, Jan Lühr wrote:
> Greetings,...
> 
> Am Freitag, 16. April 2004 20:19 schrieb David Shaw:
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:04:13PM +0200, Jan Lühr wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > refering to the source code, the twofish implementation is able to
> > > handle 128 and 256 Bit keys.  But how do I specify the size?
> >
> > You cannot without modifying the code.  While the actual code can
> > handle 128 bit keys, that is not a valid key size in OpenPGP and is
> > not used.
> 
> is there a (simple) patch available? I fact, I don't have time to
> dig into the sources, I just read the comment...

There isn't one available that I know of.  Why do you want to use 128
bit keys?  The default is the larger 256 bits.

David
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