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+2009-05-20 Werner Koch <[email protected]>
+
+ * gpg.texi (GPG Configuration Options): Explain new meaning of
+ --enable-dsa2.
+
2009-03-16 David Shaw <[email protected]>
* gpg.texi (GPG Configuration Options): Document keyserver-options
diff --git a/doc/gpg.texi b/doc/gpg.texi
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@@ -1093,10 +1093,10 @@ validation. This option is only meaningful if pka-lookups is set.
@item --enable-dsa2
@itemx --disable-dsa2
-Enables new-style DSA keys which (unlike the old style) may be larger
-than 1024 bit and use hashes other than SHA-1 and RIPEMD/160. Note
-that very few programs currently support these keys and signatures
-from them.
+Enable hash truncation for all DSA keys even for old DSA Keys up to
+1024 bit. This is also the default with @option{--openpgp}. Note
+that older versions of GnuPG also required this flag to allow the
+generation of DSA larger than 1024 bit.
@item --photo-viewer @code{string}
This is the command line that should be run to view a photo ID. "%i"