[PATCH] Allow printing key digests in key edit
Werner Koch
wk at gnupg.org
Mon Jan 30 09:32:58 CET 2012
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:23, christian at quelltextlich.at said:
> Although SHA1 is considered to be broken by some, key-signing parties
That is plain nonsense. It is not yet possible to compute collisions,
let a anone a second preimage.
> The patch added below, adds a "digest" command in the --edit-keys menu, that allows to compute further digests of keys.
These are not defined by OpenPGP and thus I strongly advise against its
use. SHA-1 is an integral part of OpenPGP; it doesn't help if you come
up with a different way of computing a fingerprint.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
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