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

[Sam Smith]

Yeah, there's still people on Internet Explorer 6 & 7 too and they cause all kinds of problems for web developers. If people using really old versions can't read something, that's really their burden to update their software. SHA1 is no longer secure. I'm not going to cater to people using really old versions, especially when security is involved.



> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 23:10:27 -0400
> From: rjh at sixdemonbag.org
> To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> Subject: Re: why is SHA1 used? How do I get SHA256 to be used?
> 
> On 7/9/2012 10:04 PM, vedaal wrote:
> > which open-pgp implementation can't read/verify SHA-256
> 
> PGP 8.0 or before.  SHA-256 was introduced in 8.1, if I recall
> correctly.  There are still a *lot* of people using 6.5.8.
> 
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