Re: [evolution-patches] Using gpg2 with SHA512
- From: Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>
- To: Steffen Michalke <stmichalke germanynet de>
- Cc: evolution-patches gnome org
- Subject: Re: [evolution-patches] Using gpg2 with SHA512
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:19:02 -0500
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 15:05 +0100, Steffen Michalke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using gpg v.2.0.8/libgcrypt 1.4.0 and wanted to test keys with
> maximum strength. Therefor I created a pair of keys with gpg2
> --enable-dsa2.
>
> These keys are usable in Thunderbird, but can't be handled by Evolution
> (v2.21.92 btw.). The reason is that SHA-1 is hard wired as the hash
> method.
>
> From Thunderbird I learned that I had to use SHA-512 instead. I enclosed
> three patches against evolution-data-server and evolution (v2.21.92
> both) which hard code SHA-512 as hash algorhythm for gpg.
>
> I confess that I'm not a C programmer so I don't know whether I broke
> something but the patches work for signing and encryption.
There's a bug about this in Bugzilla somewhere, I think... basically,
the Right Fix(tm) is to provide a way for the user to choose what hash
algo Evolution should use.
We can't go hard-coding it to SHA-512, because that will break it for other users.
Jeff
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