On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:42, p...@heypete.com said: > Would SHA-256 be a better (in the context of being more compatible) > choice if one preferred using a non-SHA-1 hash?
At least on 32 bit machines SHA-256 is faster than SHA-512. Some CPUs have hardware support for SHA-256 but not for SHA-512. With DSA and ECDSA a SHA-512 digest is anyway truncated (to 256 bit for dsa3072). Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
