[Announce] GnuPG 2.2.1 released

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2017-09-19 13:55:21 -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> I, personally, would like to see GnuPG refuse to use 64-bit block
> ciphers for encryption unless an option was set (--allow-old-ciphers,
> perhaps).  Leave the algorithms in there for RFC conformance, let them
> decrypt without a warning, but require an option to be set for using them.

Good idea, Robert.  I've opened a bug report about it to track that
suggestion here:

    https://dev.gnupg.org/T3415

Regards,

        --dkg