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diff --git a/debian/patches/from-master/gpg-default-to-AES-256.patch b/debian/patches/from-master/gpg-default-to-AES-256.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c82fea3 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/patches/from-master/gpg-default-to-AES-256.patch @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> +Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 19:04:00 -0400 +Subject: gpg: default to AES-256. + +* g10/main.h (DEFAULT_CIPHER_ALGO): Prefer AES256 by default. + +-- + +It's 2017, and pretty much everyone has AES-256 available. Symmetric +crypto is also rarely the bottleneck (asymmetric crypto is much more +expensive). AES-256 provides some level of protection against +large-scale decryption efforts, and longer key lengths provide a hedge +against unforseen cryptanalysis. + +Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> +(cherry picked from commit 73ff075204df09db5248170a049f06498cdbb7aa) +--- + g10/main.h | 4 +++- + 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) + +diff --git a/g10/main.h b/g10/main.h +index 273ddaa..d1a54db 100644 +--- a/g10/main.h ++++ b/g10/main.h +@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ + (i.e. uncompressed) rather than 1 (zip). However, the real world + issues of speed and size come into play here. */ + +-#if GPG_USE_AES128 ++#if GPG_USE_AES256 ++# define DEFAULT_CIPHER_ALGO CIPHER_ALGO_AES256 ++#elif GPG_USE_AES128 + # define DEFAULT_CIPHER_ALGO CIPHER_ALGO_AES + #elif GPG_USE_CAST5 + # define DEFAULT_CIPHER_ALGO CIPHER_ALGO_CAST5 |