Moving away from SHA-1

Per Tunedal per.tunedal at operamail.com
Wed Feb 12 09:31:41 CET 2014


Hi Peter,
Yes, I've searched the archives. Conclusion: There's not any immediate
danger to GnuPG.

But, all the same: I cannot find any information on what's the plans for
the future. Sooner or later a transition to some other hash has to take
place, hasn't it?
Yours,
Per Tunedal

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014, at 10:46, Peter Lebbing wrote:
> On 11/02/14 09:10, Per Tunedal wrote:
> > Is there any work in progress to move to a more secure
> > hash algorithm?
> 
> Have you searched the mailing list archives? There are several times this
> has
> been discussed already, including many different opinions, responses to
> those
> opinions and arguments for and against specific plans of action. I don't
> think
> there's anything substantial to add to those existing discussions.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Peter.
> 
> -- 
> I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail.
> You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy.
> My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter>



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