
dkg at fifthhorseman
May 7, 2009, 10:53 AM
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blacklist-cipher-algo [Re: --blacklist-digest-algo plans]
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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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