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Re: how close is OpenPGP tied to SHA1

2009-02-02 08:31:15

Hi Daniel.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg(_at_)fifthhorseman(_dot_)net> wrote:
This was just discussed on the list last month in a thread titled "A
review of hash function brittleness in OpenPGP":
Thanks for that pointer.

Proposals?
Well,.. not really ;-)
The first question would be: Are SHA2 algorithms really more secure
than SHA1? If so one could think to switch for example to SHA512.
Or even wait for SHA3.
Or are there any other promising hash functions? Whirlpool?

Greetings,
Peter