How to Determine Digest Algorithm
Patrick Brunschwig
patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org
Tue Jan 30 15:42:02 CET 2007
Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:40, patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org said:
>
>>> At the moment, not really, but it's not impossible to add a way to ask
>>> GPG the question "if you were going to make a signature, which hash
>>> algorithm would you use".
>> That would be nice for the future, but I think in short term, I'll find
>> a way to cache the passphrase for the 2nd call to gpg.
>
> I have implemented the following:
>
> [GNUPG:] GOOD_PASSPHRASE
> [GNUPG:] BEGIN_SIGNING H2
> [GNUPG:] SIG_CREATED S 1 2 00 1170166837 1DFED28E885CE98C170CEE80907B5D1640619DD0
> <kira> is a surgical war where you go give the foreign troops nose jobs?
> The thing here is that BEGIN_SIGANTURE is emitted before the input is
> processed. This means that it will work with very long files. This
> allows for constructing micalg while still right away. Note, that
> SIG_CREATED will only be emitted after the signature has been created
> (i.e. after all input data has been processed) and for each signature
> created.
>
> I general you will see only one argument, but be prepared that things
> like
>
> [GNUPG:] BEGIN_SIGNING H2 H8
>
> are also possible. I suggest to take only the first one and ignore
> any possible extra hash algorithms (iirc, PGP/MIME does not allow to
> specify more than one micalg.
> This will be available in 2.0.2 and backported to 1.4
> Shalom-Salam,
Great, thanks a lot! This will make it easier and more consistent to
determine the hash algorithm.
-Patrick
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