Nullify's GnuPG 1.0.7 Release 2

Johan Wevers johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl
Sun May 5 22:40:01 2002


Werner Koch wrote:

> There is no other implementation using SHA-256, so you using this you
> will only foster interoperabilty problems.

It might be usefull as a security measure. And interoperability problems
are not always an issue, however:

> >   - Enables GPG to generate RSA v3 keys
>
> As already said, v3 keys do have minor security problems.

But interoperability is THE issue in wanting to use RSA v3 keys.
PGP 2 still plays an important role.

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