[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#931923: gnupg: should support sha2 fingerprints

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Sat Apr 19 15:56:08 BST 2025


On 2025-04-19 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at bebt.de> wrote:
> On 2019-07-12 Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org> wrote:
[...]
>> SHA-2 fingerprints should be supported for X.509 as well.  Web
>> browsers have shown those for quite a while now.

>> The same is true for fingerprints of OpenPGP keys, but I'm not sure if
>> there is any standard for those...

[...]
> I will doublecheck about gpgsm.

gpgsm nowadays also *shows* the sha2 fpr by default. Afaict it cannot be
yet be used for selecting keys though. I have opened a feature-request
for that upstream at https://dev.gnupg.org/T7618

cu Andreas
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