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fw@deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer) wrote in <874rw8uby7.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>:

>jtnews <jtnews@optonline.net> writes:
>
>> Does anyone know if there any limit
>> on passphrase length in GnuPG 1.0.4?
>
>AFAIK, there isn't one.
>
>> Is there a limit on the effectiveness
>> of very long passphrases due to the 
>> implementation of the cipher algorithm?
>
>It doesn't make sense to have more entropy in the passphrase than the
>cipher algorithm can use with its key length (but too much entropy
>isn't harmful anyway).  Obviously, there's no generic way to translate
>an entropy constraint to passphrase length limit.
>

  Does anyone know if there will ever me a mode in GnuPG that
would allow for a simple fully bijective compression and encryption
for messages not using a public key. So that at least the blocks of
data can be a true "bijective compression encryption" meaning any
key would lead to a decrypted decompressed file such that when
recompressed and encrypted you get the same data. At least in
the nonpublic key mode. So that it would be harder to attack.

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