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GPG: Deprecated hash + local "game over" exploit
- Subject: GPG: Deprecated hash + local "game over" exploit
- From: guninski at guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)
- Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 10:13:04 +0300
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
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 :)