Re: [evolution-patches] Using gpg2 with SHA512



On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 10:19 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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,

Bugzilla entry for this issue :
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304415

>  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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