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

Michael Rogers michael at briarproject.org
Wed Sep 3 06:17:33 EDT 2014


> 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.

Yup, GPG4Win lacks SHA512 support and can't verify signatures that use it.

http://www.gpg4win.org/features.html

Cheers,
Michael

Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:

>
>
>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.
>
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