Tiger and SHA2 in gpg 1.2.0

[Johan Wevers]

David Shaw wrote:

> SHA2 is not part of the official GnuPG.

I know, but I can still want to use it. Is this still possible?

> Note there are many good reasons not to use TIGER.

Like what? Is it a weak hash, or is its strength not very well
researched? I know that its size of 192 bits causes problems with
the DSA standards.

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