[Enigmail] about creating a secure encryption

[John Clizbe]

Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> 
> (Hmm.  Why am I using SHA256, instead of SHA224?  Probably because (a)
> it doesn't matter very much and (b) I had a braino and I'm too lazy to
> fix it right now.)

C) because the computational workload is the same in either case, ie the SHA-256
algorithm is used for both - SHA-224 uses an different initial value and is
truncated.


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