Quote from: Guru on July 24, 2012, 01:36 pmQuote from: LouisCyphre on July 24, 2012, 10:06 amQuote from: Imaginarytailus13 on July 22, 2012, 09:00 pmGuru and Pine for SR security patrol officers? I`m thinking their addition would do us good.I'll second that.Don't leave yourself out, eh? It would be awfully presumptive of me to nominate myself. ;)Quote from: Guru on July 24, 2012, 01:36 pmI'm just curious, though, what do you have against 3DES and CAST5? I'll grant you, CAST5 is a 128-bit cipher, and 3DES has an effective strength of 112-bits due to meet-in-the-middle attack.... that said, no one (to my knowledge at least) has shown that they are broken. After all, weren't 256-bit ciphers introduced only as a precaution against quantum computers becoming available that could break smaller keys? I've got nothing against Triple-DES or CAST5, but probably should've reversed the order because of the meet-in-the-middle attack since CAST5 is 128-bit and likely slightly stronger than Triple-DES. I'd only take people to task for using them because it would likely be indicative of using some truly ancient implementation of OpenPGP and may be indicative of other issues. I'd take it on a case-by-case circumstance.SHA1 and MD5 are, of course, another matter entirely.As for 256-bit ciphers being adopted to foil quantum computing, there's some truth to that to be sure. Still, the ciphers are available so why not take advantage of them.