Openpgp comments

* Werner Koch wrote:
> I have not heard about any plans to switch to SHA-2. 
At least Germany
> is still using RIPME-MD160 out of fear that SHA-1 has
been developed
> in the U.S.  I don't think that this algorithm is any
better than
> SHA-1 but some people decided in the past to use an
European algorithm
> (another layer 9 issue).

With respect to the (not so) recent attacks of hash
functions, RIPEMD is a
better choice then just another SHA variant.