gnupg website

Andrew Gallagher andrewg at andrewg.com
Wed Jan 25 10:13:42 CET 2017


> On 25 Jan 2017, at 08:52, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:05, sivmu at web.de said:
> 
>> not sure this is the perfect place, but I wanted to point out that the
>> gnupg.org website still uses sha1 as a mac.
> 
> Despite that SHA-1 is not yet broken they now even claims that HMAC-SHA1
> is broken?  I do not even known a theoretical attack on HMAC-MD5

Browsers are not deprecating HMAC-SHA-1, but the use of SHA-1 in certificate signature generation. These are not the same thing. 

gnupg.org's own cert uses SHA-256 and it's intermediate uses SHA-364. Nothing to see here, move along. :-)

Andrew. 



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