GPG and PGP

[vedaal at nym.hush.com]

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com wrote on
Tue Mar 15 15:34:47 CET 2011 :

> would like to see IDEA included once the various patents expire

As long as the non-256 bit symmetrical algorithms (IDEA, CAST5, 
3DES, BLOWFISH) will remain part of open PGP, and the MDC needs 
revision eventually to move up from SHA-1,

then can the MDC be modified to apply to the non-256 bit ciphers as 
well,
(or at least amend the gnupg error message to a less ominous one, 
that MDC's are not generated for non-256 bit ciphers) ?


vedaal