why is SHA1 used? How do I get SHA256 to be used?

[Sam Smith]

Hauke, thank you so much for explaining this. Would you be so kind as to describe how exactly I should edit my config file to accomplish SHA256? 

There's lots of "advice" out there and I'd like to make sure I don't make any mistakes when configuring. Thank you.


From: mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de
To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
Subject: Re: why is SHA1 used? How do I get SHA256 to be used?
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 23:56:11 +0200

Am Mo 09.07.2012, 17:45:37 schrieb Sam Smith:
> Here's the result of ShowPRef for my key:
> Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, CAST5, 3DES
>      Digest: SHA256, SHA1, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
>      Compression: ZLIB, BZIP2, ZIP, Uncompressed
> 
> SHA1 is showing up second. So when I sign a message, why isn't SHA256 used?
 
Your key tells others what to do. For what you do yourself ("when I sign a 
message") you have to edit the config file.
 
 
Hauke
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