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dkg at fifthhorseman

May 7, 2009, 10:53 AM

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blacklist-cipher-algo [Re: --blacklist-digest-algo plans]

On 05/07/2009 01:31 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 2009 18:11, dkg [at] fifthhorseman said:
>
>> While we're defining this, do we want to also define
>> --blacklist-cipher-algo ? Semantically, i imagine that adding a cipher
>> to the blacklist would result in the following:
>>
>> * nothing would ever be encrypted over the blacklisted cipher
>
> That can be done with --disable-cipher-algo.

--disable-cipher-algo also has the effect that no decryption can be done
with that algorithm, though. anyway, it's clear that
blacklist-cipher-algo is at least marginally controversial. So i'll
drop it for now so that we can concentrate on blacklist-digest-algo.

thanks for the feedback,

--dkg
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