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Email encryption error

When I use evolution to encrypt an email I get the following error

Code:

could not create message

Because "gpg: writing to `-'

gpg: DSA key AC806A0E requires a 256 bit or larger hash

gpg: signing failed: General error

", you may need to select different mail options.

information:

Code:

# gpg --version

gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.12

libgcrypt 1.4.4

Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.



Home: ~/.gnupg

Supported algorithms:

Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA

Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, 

        CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256

Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224

Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2



# cat /etc/SuSE-brand

openSUSE

VERSION = 11.2



# egrep -v '^#' gpg.conf | egrep -v '^$'

require-cross-certification

keyserver  hkp://keys.gnupg.net

personal-digest-preferences SHA256

cert-digest-algo SHA256

thanks!

Your key requires sha256 or better and evolution is probably defaulting to using sha1 (thats what its been every time I've seen this error in the past anyways.) You need to change it.
See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304415

Thanks! that is it.

Ashame that the bug has been around for 5 years and you have to use SHA1 over the new improved SHA2.

I think there was a patch or evolution was changed so you could change what it uses, but where that's at I'm not sure anymore.