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Re: [Sam Hartman] Openpgp comments

Ian G <iang@systemics.com> Tue, 19 September 2006 09:09 UTC

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David Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:02:44AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
>> The second issue is the encryption with integrity packet.  Today this
>> is hard-wired to use SHA-1.  That's not OK.  We need an upgrade path
>> for that and I think we need to support SHA-256 now.
> 
> Does the MDC actually need collision resistance?  I was under the
> impression that (like the secret key "S2K 254" use of SHA-1) this was
> essentially a checksum and the recent attacks against SHA-1 did not
> apply.


Yes, that was my question too.

iang

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