1.3.6 cert signatures

Atom 'Smasher' atom at suspicious.org
Sat Jul 24 06:00:04 CEST 2004


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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, David Shaw wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 05:50:41PM -0400, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:

>> should "personal-digest-preferences" affect cert signatures?
>>
>> or is that too broad an interpretation of the intent?
>
> Yes.  Changing the digest for cert signatures is something that GnuPG
> supports for protocol completeness, but it's one of those things that
> you should never do unless you really, really know what you are doing.
> And even then you probably shouldn't do it.
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what problems should i expect if i use SHA-256 on keybinding and cert 
signatures? (aside from the obvious, that some older implementations won't 
be able to handle it)


         ...atom

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