Which Digest Algorithm to use?

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Fri Mar 3 19:35:41 CET 2006


On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 07:29:30PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> 
> >>Does this makes any sense anyways because the own
> >>selfsignatures use MD5 which is weak. I could do
> >>new self-sigs with another algorithm, correct?
> >>    
> >>
> >Yes, but then you can't use the key in PGP 2 any longer.
> >  
> >
> Than he should also revoke his old selfsigs, correct?

He can if he wants to.  It doesn't actually make a difference either
way since the new signature overrides the older one.

David



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