personal-digest-preferences

[David Shaw]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 04:26:01PM -0400, John W. Moore III wrote:
> Jørgen Christiansen Lysdal wrote:
> > David Shaw wrote:
> > 
> >> It's historical.  Older versions of GPG generated keys with a standard
> >> hash preference of RIPEMD/160 before SHA-1.  When GPG later started
> >> using that hash preference to decide which hash to pick, this resulted
> >> in people who were expecting SHA-1 to suddenly get RIPEMD/160.  To
> >> restore the old behavior, we stuck a SHA-1 preference in
> >> personal-digest-preferences.
> > 
> > Can i have sausage with that?? //
> > 
> > Is there an easy way to remove it??
>  Or change it; say to SHA 256?

You can set it to whatever you like.

David