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Re: [openpgp] V5 Fingerprint again

2017-03-02 05:41:42
I think we can go slightly further here for depreciation in implementation 
logic: if a primary key is self signed with a stronger algorithm, a sha1 
signature can be considered a security error. This avoids a downgrade scenario 
and catches misconfigurations but should have little potential for false 
positives.

The only scenario I can think of where this heuristic is off, is when the 
sender doesn't create their key themselves and isn't itself capable of stronger 
hashes. Not sure if that ever happens? 

 - V
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