[Gpg4win-users-en] Gpg4win 2.1.1. beta 197

[Bob Henson]

On 28/05/2013 9:24 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2013 11:29, oldbob at oldbob.co.uk said:
> 
>> The corresponding english message is "WARNING: signature digest conflict
>> in message"
> 
> Oops, ranting about the micalg I forgot to discuss this message.
> 
> Frankly, I don't know what is going on.  Without checking the Enigmail
> code I can only assume that Enigmail constructs a binary signature from
> PGP/MIME by using the micalg.  Although this is a pretty fragile
> construct, it works in general - as long as you have enabled all hash
> algorithms in the constructed binary.  I am sure that Patrick once
> explained it to me but I can't remember the reason right now.
> 
> 

I'm not very technical, but if I follow this correctly, the short answer
is that there is nothing I can do to change things and that Gpg4win is
limited to using a somewhat outmoded hash and there is no way that this
will ever change. Should I revert to using Outlook full-time at least I
can verify/decode messages. Thank you very much for the help, anyway.

Regards,

Bob