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by nknighthb 4268 days ago
And then reflect on the fact that you're still using a joke of a "KDF". SHA256 1001 times? Really? (And it doesn't even so much as have provision for upping the number of iterations!)

Like TFA says, don't roll your own crypto. GnuPG exists for a reason.

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Not to mention that a large set of keys are known to be reflectively weak under Blowfish:

http://iacr.org/archive/fse2007/45930168/45930168.pdf

And of course there's ciphertext malleability attacks as it's not using authenticated encryption