Changing the Hash algo in gpg1.2.3

[Thomas Sjögren]

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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:55:49AM -0500, Admin @ Petridish.org wrote:
> I have heard that sha1 has been broken and I wanted to begin using md5

Where did you hear that?
Unless the implementation is broken sha1 is more secure then md5.
"[Sha1] is slightly slower than MD5, but the larger message digest makes=20
it more secure against brute-force collision and inversion attacks" [1]=20

[1] http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/3-6-5.html

/Thomas
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