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

[Andy Ruddock]

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Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> On 7/9/2012 10:04 PM, vedaal wrote:
>> which open-pgp implementation can't read/verify SHA-256
> 
> PGP 8.0 or before.  SHA-256 was introduced in 8.1, if I recall
> correctly.  There are still a *lot* of people using 6.5.8.
> 

I used the information in this article :

http://www.debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/48

If there are errors or omissions I'd be interested to learn, as the
article is now over 3 years old.

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