Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 06/27/2014 03:54 PM, shm...@riseup.net wrote: > > >> Robert J. Hansen: >>> On 6/26/2014 5:57 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >>>> PGP 8 was released over a decade ago, that's hardly a modern >>>> implementation: >>> >>> And yet, it still conforms (largely) to RFC4880. Methinks >>> you're objecting because it's a largely-conforming implementation >>> that doesn't have good support for SHA256. ;) >>> >>>> In what ways is its support for SHA-256 limited? I'm having a >>>> hard time finding documentation for it. >>> >>> If I recall correctly, it can understand SHA-256 but not >>> generate SHA-256. SHA-256 generation support was added late in >>> the 8.x series, but earlier 8.x releases could understand it. >>>
That is as I remember it, Rob. I don't recall if there was a difference between 8.0 and 8.1 with respect to SHA-256. JM3 probably would. > >> any modern OS can utilise thunderbird + enigmail as an example Any? Maybe for the Windows/Linux/Mac case. >> there's great work done to bring gnupg to windows with gpg4win > >> why *wouldn't* you use it ? In the US? Sarbanes-Oxley or any other retention/retrieval laws and regulations. [see below] Those requirements have a way of spreading internationally within a corporation or business sector. > > You won't convince a corporate IT department in a Law firm (or for > that matter Financial world) about it. They want SLAs and support, and > who knows what custom addons they have for their Outlook setup for > various functions that makes it impractical to switch to Thunderbird > (does it support Exchange these days?) HR, and Compliance/Legal are some other departments that would veto the move. PGP 8.x has a couple non-RFC extensions that make it quite popular in the corporate world: ADKs, and X.509 certifications on PGP keys. The accompanying LDAP-based PGP Keyserver is also often found in this environment, if they haven't added the keyserver functionality to their corporate directories. PGP also had plugins for GroupWise and Notes, in addition to Outlook. -John -- John P. Clizbe Inet: John (a) Gingerbear DAWT net SKS/Enigmail/PGP-EKP or: John ( @ ) Enigmail DAWT net FSF Assoc #995 / FSFE Fellow #1797 hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net or mailto:pgp-public-k...@gingerbear.net?subject=HELP Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?" A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels" _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users