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

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Tue Nov 17 18:48:34 UTC 2015


On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 07:10:00PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * 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.

Not in gnupg 2 afaik.


Kurt



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