SHA2(SHA256/384/512) in PGP 2.6.3ia-multi05 - Are there any plans in the nex future for GnuPG?

disastry@saiknes.lv disastry@saiknes.lv
Tue Oct 2 15:20:01 2001


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Werner Koch wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 13:58:29 +0200, Marek Schneider said:
>
> > do you have any plans to implement SHA2(SHA256/384/512) in GnuPG in the
> > next time?
>
> As soon as we have specs for an enhanced DSS this makes sense.
> Currently I can't see a need for more and very slow hash algorithms.
> Werner
but they can be used with RSA (and maybe with ElGmal, I don't know). == <EOF> == Disastry http://i.am/disastry/ http://disastry.dhs.org/pgp <----PGP plugins for Netscape and MDaemon ^--GPG for Win32 (supports loadable modules and IDEA) ^---PGP 2.6.3ia-multi05 (supports IDEA, CAST5, BLOWFISH, TWOFISH, AES, 3DES ciphers and MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA2 hashes) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Netscape PGP half-Plugin 0.14 by Disastry / PGPsdk v1.7.1 iQA/AwUBO7miBjBaTVEuJQxkEQOZRQCfRXhIp/rJs69pxol4l2qUlmFrUoQAoPWB KiLJyDH0gJnk76D3526xfeLc =kFum -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----