[openssl-dev] Removing obsolete crypto from OpenSSL 1.1 - seeking feedback

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Tue Nov 17 18:10:00 UTC 2015


* Viktor Dukhovni:

> If I were to guess, it would be that the base crypto implementations
> of IDEA, SEED and binary elliptic curves need to stay.  We could
> perhaps get away with removing CAST and RIPEMD.

Just one data point: CAST5 is still the default for GnuPG when using
symmetric encryption.

Florian


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