Weaknesses in SHA-1, gnupg dev versions

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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Thomas Schorpp wrote:

> i would like sha512 too for better protection of my passphrase(?). 
> sorry, i cant afford helping implementing crypto-algorithms in gnupg.
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it may or may not be any better.

- --s2k-digest-algo

of course that wil work with almost any hash other than SHA-512 ;)

hhmmm... just noticed the (1.2.4) man page on that:

        --s2k-digest-algo name
 	Use name as the digest algorithm used to mangle the passphrases.
 	The default algorithm is SHA-1.  This digest algorithm is also
 	used for conventional encryption if --digest-algo is not given.

i'm not sure what that last sentence means here, but it's not in the 1.3.6 
man page.



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