Re: [openpgp] New fingerprint: which hash algo

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] New fingerprint: which hash algo
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On 10/8/2015 at 6:45 PM, "ianG"  wrote:
Engineering or planning, anyone?

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(Which is to say, popularity got us to a situation where *11* years 
after the shots were fired, and 15 years after the new version was 
delivered, we're still using lots and lots of SHA1.  We want to
improve 
that with 15 year old tech?)

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So if it's a new key version V5, may be it would be reasonable to go
with a the new hash standard, SHA 3 (Keccak)

http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=919061
vedaal