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Re: [openpgp] Fingerprints

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Mon, 13 April 2015 07:46 UTC

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On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 05:11, tom@ritter.vg said:

> Well, say we choose SHA-3, and say Algorithm 1 is SHA-3.  In 5 years,
> where we learned our lesson and want to hash a different set of data
> for the fingerprint, but SHA-3 is still fine, wouldn't that be a
> problem?

That would require a new key packet format anyway and any old key can't
be used with that.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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