Two questions

Joseph Oreste Bruni jbruni at mac.com
Fri Jun 22 22:25:37 CEST 2007



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On Friday, June 22, 2007, at 12:36PM, "David Shaw" <dshaw at jabberwocky.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:54:23AM -0700, Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote:
>
>> 1. In your gpg.conf, you can specify a "digest-algo SHA256" which
>> will set your default signature algorithm. The preferences in your
>> key are used by others to determine which algorithms to use when
>> sending messages to you. Not the other way around.
>
>See the warnings on "digest-algo" in the manual.  In short, don't use
>it.
>
>David

Good to know. It appears to work with either the short strings (pref) or the long strings (showpref). The manual only indicates short strings (pref).

Joe




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