Re: [evolution-patches] Using gpg2 with SHA512

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

seems reasonable to me.

Jeff


On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 21:56 +0200, Steffen Michalke wrote:
> Steffen Michalke <stmichalke germanynet de> writes:
> 
> > Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com> writes:
> >
> >> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 10:18 +0530, Johnny Jacob wrote:
> >>> 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
> >>
> >> Can you put your patches to bugzilla? So that it is tracked well :-)
> >>
> >>> 
> >>> >  I think... basically,
> >>> > the Right Fix(tm) is to provide a way for the user to choose what hash
> >>> > algo Evolution should use.
> >>
> >> I agree to fejj's point. Can you look into this as well. You can contact
> >> us on mail/chat for any help you need.
> >>
> >> -Srini
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I attached 2 patches against evolution and evolution-data-server
> > v2.24.0.
> >
> > These patches (one line each) simply remove the default hash algorhythm,
> > leaving the choice to gpg2 resp. the user settings in gpg.conf
> > ("digest-algo"). To me, it seems to be fine to use the backends for such
> > things. Signing e-mails now works with all the algorhythms which gpg2
> > knows of, given the "digest-algo" option is set (but
> > "personal-digest-preferences", as described in the manpage, does not
> > work here :-( ).
> >
> > The default method is SHA1.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Steffen
> 
> I try it again ;-)
> 
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