Signature algorithms

[Joke de Buhr]

I was wondering how gnupg chooses a digest algorithm.

I used setpref to configure my gpg key to accept sha512,sha384,... digest 
algorithms and set gnupg's option "personal-digest-preferences" to prefer 
sha512,sha384,... hashes. If I sign something and specify myself as recipient 
gpg2 in verbose mode reports it uses the ripemd160 algorithm.

As far as I understand the manpage gpg2 should choose sha512 not ripemd160. 
Does a smartcard affect the choosen algorithm. I recently started using the 
"crypto stick" smartcard which should be a openpgp card v2.


Thanks
Joke
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