GPG: Deprecated hash + local "game over" exploit

Steve Kinney admin at pilobilus.net
Sun Jul 2 23:57:04 PDT 2017



On 07/02/2017 03:13 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 04:17:29PM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:
>> A couple of days ago Shawn pointed out offlist that my GPG installation
>> was using SHA1 when signing messages.  Although seven hash functions are
>> included in GnuPG 1.4.16, SHA1 is still the default.
>>
> It was funny when someone (likely you) signed inline with SHA1 email
> about SHA1 collisions and the choice of hash was obvious :)

I don't recall doing that, but I can't rule it out.

:o)



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