SHA-1 recommendations

Bernd Eckenfels lists at lina.inka.de
Mon May 18 20:54:45 CEST 2009


On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 02:16:23PM -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> >  It is assumed that only algorithms listed are supported by the
> >  recipient's software.
> 
> i.e. don't list it if you don't support it.

Well, my english understanding would read "only" as "not more than". This
would be "It is assumed that no more then the listed algorithms are
supported by the recipient's software".

This sentence asks for an errata.

And now matter how you read it, GPG should add prefered larger algorithms by
default.

Gruss
Bernd
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