On 7/11/2012 11:09 AM, Hauke Laging wrote:
> Does it make sense that a standard overrides a user's decision to prefer 
> security over compatibility (sure, you can still check afterwards what has 
> happened but that can be difficult especially if gpg is not used directly but 
> called by a MUA e.g.)?

Yes.

The entire point of a standard is to allow interoperation.  That means
there has to be some final fallback mode.  SHA-1 is that fallback mode.
 With luck we'll see this get changed once the new hash standard is
announced.

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