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Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Jun 26 09:22:03 CEST 2012


On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:12, vedaal at nym.hush.com said:

> it will be interesting to see if V4 keys will be gracefully 
> abandoned as SHA1 becomes as broken as MD5, 

This is very different in OpenPGP.  SHA-1 is not used everywhere; its
main use is for the fingerprint, this will eventually be a problem.  The
use of SHA-1 in the MDC is not problematic.  Everywhere else we are
already using SHA-2.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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