[NBLUG/talk] The (maybe) SHA1 hash crack

[Augie Schwer]

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:53:25 -0800, Mark Janes <mkjanes at sonic.net> wrote:
> ~   As I sent off the last message, I noted that my current version of
> gpg uses SHA1 by default. I decided, just to be sure, to generate new
> keys using another hashing algorithm. In any event just how serious is
> this, really?

Mark,

No need to generate a new key pair; that's what subkeys are for. :)

http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN526

Also you will need to upgrade GPG to 1.4 to be able to write a hash using
SHA256 and above.

Augie.


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