why is SHA1 used? How do I get SHA256 to be used?

vedaal vedaal.nistar at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 04:04:21 CEST 2012


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On 7/9/2012 7:12 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> DON'T USE --cipher-algo OR --digest-algo UNLESS YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND WHY. IT'S
EASY TO CREATE MESSAGES YOUR RECIPIENT CANNOT READ.

which open-pgp implementation can't read/verify SHA-256

(btw,
am trying out thunderbird with enigmail, and a new gmail account, to try
to not 'break threads'

please let me know if it still breaks,

thanks,

vedaal

my keys:
http://www.angelfire.com/pr/pgpf/mykeys.html
(have not yet added the new gmail uid and uploaded to keyservers)
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