GnuPG: what email client should i use?

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Walter Truitt wrote:

> Something else I found in the code is a difference in the
> multipart/signed header where it states the micalg=pgp-sha1 (or what it
> had set to pgp-md5).  I am guessing that gnupg defaults to sha1, and
> therefore set it to print this instead.  I would also suppose that gpg

SHA-1 is the hash algorithm required by DSS and tehrefore GnuPG
normally uses this.  Using MD5 together with a DSA key is not
possible.  GnupG has no need for the micalg parameter but according to
the standard it should be tehrer.  There is a new --status-fd output
which tells you the micalg used:

    SIG_CREATED <type> <pubkey algo> <hash algo> <class> <timestamp> <key fpr>
        A signature has been created using these parameters.
            type:  'D' = detached
                   'C' = cleartext
                   'S' = standard
                   (only the first character should be checked)
            class: 2 hex digits with the signature class


  Werner

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