[guardian-dev] Fwd: [messaging] Release of OpenKeychain 2.8 for Android

Tue Sep 2 15:47:16 EDT 2014

Dominik Schuermann wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On 08/29/2014 08:35 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> * when creating a key, the "name" text field does not seem to be set to handle
>> names (i.e. android:inputType="textPersonName")
> 
> thanks. We will look into this.
> 
>> * the default hash algorithm shouldn't be SHA-512 since that is unnecessary
>> and not widely supported.  SHA-256 is a better choice for a default.  There
>> was a discussion on one of the gnupg lists where Werner said to stick with
>> SHA-256.
> 
> I looked at speed comparisons and there are only minimal speed
> difference between SHA-256 and SHA-512, do you have a link to the mail
> by Werner?

I don't have the link, sorry.  My point is not about speed, it is about
compatibility.  I think SHA256 is more widely supported than SHA512.

.hc

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