Non-cipher preferences

disastry@saiknes.lv disastry@saiknes.lv
Mon Jul 22 11:30:45 2002


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David Shaw wrote:

> > However, I would like to point out, before this discussion on hash
> > algorithms ends, that TIGER192 cannot be used for signing because with
> > DSA it is too large and with RSA and Elgamal it does not have a proper
> > ASN.1 OID for the PKCS encoding.
> 
> Yes.  You can only really use it with other GnuPG users

PGP 2.6.3ia-multi06 adn PGP 6.5.8ckt08 supports TIGER192 hash too.
they use the same (wrong) OID as GPG.

> (which is not
> a big problem since no other implementation has it anyway...)
> David

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