GPG 1.1.92 bogus error for IDEA plugin

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Werner Koch wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:16:29 -0500, Larry Ellis said:
> 
> > When I run --version on 1.1.92, IDEA is missing from the cipher list.
> > Also, there are a number of missing hash algorithms:  Tiger, and all the SHA
> > variants except SHA1are missing, all of which I thought were now statically
> 
> If you need TIGER you may use ./configure --enable-tiger.  The use of
> this algorithm is not sugested because it is not sufficiently defined.
> 
> We don't have any SHA-{256,384.512} implementations yet (i.e. the
> paperwork has to be done).  And there is nothing you can do with it

I can't agree with this.
SHA-{256,384.512} can be used with RSA keys!
RSA keys can be much larger than 1024 bits, so why stick with only 160 bit hash?

well.. I could agree that SHA-256 is enough and SHA-{384.512} is overkill.
but SHA-{384.512} my be useful for ones with 64bit CPUs - SHA-{384.512} is
significally faster than SHA-256 there, almost as fast as SHA1.

besides SHA-{256,384.512} can also be used with Elgamal signing keys,
but these keys are unpopular, so no big deal.

> because DSA requires a 160 bit (this requirement is hard coded in
> GnuPG) and after all adding more algorithms today will only make the
> teh compatibilty problems harder.  Anyone wants to get into the same
> problems as with CMS/X.509?
>
> Salam-Shalom,
>    Werner

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