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David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Wed Jun 22 20:25:00 CEST 2005


On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 06:04:16PM +0200, Ruben De Visscher wrote:
> I heard that recently, the SHA-1 message digest has been broken. 
> Because GnuPG uses this algorithm to make its digital signatures i 
> think it would be a good thing to implement a safer digest like SHA-2 
> for example.

GnuPG supports all of the SHA-2 hashes (256, 384, 512).

David



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