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Re: Changing GPG's default key type



On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 14:00 -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> Concerns about compatibility, mainly.  There is a much larger  
> installed base of clients that understand SHA-1 than that understand  
> (say) SHA-256.  SHA-256 has only been understood in a non-development  
> version of GPG since 2004.  If I recall properly, PGP added it more or  
> less around the same time.  That's not that long ago, and I frequently  
> see people asking for support for some version of GPG or PGP that  
> predates SHA-256.
At least we've seen from the recent SHA1-related events,... that this
point is comming closer ;)


> None of this means that we wouldn't change the default signing hash at  
> some point later.  It's just not something we're currently planning on  
> for today.
Of course :)


Chris.

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