Encryption algos

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:04:42PM +0100, Per Tunedal Casual wrote:
> Hi,
> I just checked the list of algos in GnuPG v. 1.4:
> 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
> 
> The list is rather long, what about making it a bit longer?
> Rational: When AES starts to become questioned (10 years from now? sooner?)
> we have an  other secure algo to fall back upon.

The algorithm list is defined by OpenPGP.  If the OpenPGP standard
gets more algorithms, we'll likely support them.  I don't think it it
likely to happen (I'd argue against it) but you can make a proposal to
the OpenPGP working group if you like:

   http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/index.html

David