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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-patches mailing list > Evolution-patches gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-patches
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