Aside: GPG-1.2 useless

[Hugh Daniel]

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  Just to keep my team focused on getting FreeS/WAN 2.00 out I am
taking the heat of checking out the new version of GPG to see if it
can be useful to us.

  Sadly GPG-1.2 still can not do the PGP2 protocol correctly, so it is
only somewhat useful as a file integrity check system...still.

  Quickly the failure is simple:

ahost$ echo "This is a test." > foo
ahost$ gpg --no-options --pgp2 --armor -r (((your_key))) --sign --encrypt foo
ahost$ pgp2 foo.asc
...
Unsupported packet format - you need a newer version of PGP for this file.
...

  With this faliure I know of no reason to use GPG-1.2 over GPG-1.0.7,
so I see no reason to even update our machines.

  Lets hope someday it works for _all_ PGP/GPG/OpenPGP users.  In the
mean time our team will continue to use PGP2 for everything.

		||ugh Daniel
		hugh at freeswan.org

			Systems Testing & Project mis-Management
			The Linux FreeS/WAN Project
			http://www.freeswan.org

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