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Re: how close is OpenPGP tied to SHA1

2009-02-01 21:44:10

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Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
On 02/01/2009 08:24 PM, Peter Thomas wrote:
After reading the whole RFC I've found several places where SHA1 is
given as the only possible algorithm,

This was just discussed on the list last month in a thread titled "A
review of hash function brittleness in OpenPGP":

  http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg30323.html

It would be worth reviewing that thread because it contains relevant
discussion.  

http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/ has links to the indexed archive as well as how
to obtain the entire archive in mbox format

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