Error when signing a mail with Evolution

Charly Avital shavital at mac.com
Mon Dec 10 14:17:45 CET 2007


Jiminy wrote the following on 12/7/07 6:09 PM:
> Hi,
> 
> I use GnuPG with Evolution. When I try to sign a mail with my key, I get
> this error:
> 
> gpg: DSA key <my key ID> requires a 256 bit or larger hash
> 
> What can I do?


Maybe you should enable, in gpg.conf:
digest-algo  SHA256

I can only guess that when you generated your DSA key, option
enable-dsa2 was enabled in your gpg.conf

Or, I might be totally wrong, for which I apologize in advance.

Charly





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