Evoultion encrption error

I have created my keys, I have tried through both the CLI and Seahorse.

When I sign an email I get the following error:

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.
# 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

I added the digest lines in an effort to trouble shoot the issue. The error use to say “224 bit or larger hash”

well… I Found the answer https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304415

I will have to see if this impacts the servers that run SLED.

For the workaround you have to use old and less secure SHA1


# egrep -v '^#' gpg.conf | egrep -v '^$'
require-cross-certification
keyserver  hkp://keys.gnupg.net
personal-digest-preferences SHA1
cert-digest-algo SHA1