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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2020-05-02 23:53:25 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2020-05-04 09:56:14 +0200
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doc: Recommend against SHA1 OpenPGP signatures.
* doc/contributing.texi (Commit Access): Recommend against SHA1 signatures.
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@@ -1187,6 +1187,16 @@ the OpenPGP key you will use to sign commits, and giving its fingerprint
(see below). See @uref{https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/}, for an
introduction to public-key cryptography with GnuPG.
+@c See <https://sha-mbles.github.io/>.
+Set up GnuPG such that it never uses the SHA1 hash algorithm for digital
+signatures, which is known to be unsafe since 2019, for instance by
+adding the following line to @file{~/.gnupg/gpg.conf} (@pxref{GPG
+Esoteric Options,,, gnupg, The GNU Privacy Guard Manual}):
+
+@example
+digest-algo sha512
+@end example
+
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