[Announce] GnuPG 1.4.1 News

[Jason Harris]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:

> I forgot to insert the NEWS for 1.4.1; there are actually not that
> many as those for the last release.  Here we go:
 
>  * New "import-unusable-sigs" and "export-unusable-sigs" tags for
>    --import-options and --export-options.  These are off by
>    default, and cause GnuPG to not import or export key signatures
>    that are not usable (e.g. expired signatures).

Gah!  It seems these are _ON_ by default, are undocumented in the
manual page, (aren't picked up when listed in ~/.gnupg/options,)
and _CAN NOT_ be turned off:

  %gpg --no-options --no-auto-check-trustdb --import-options import-unusable-sigs --keyserver keyserver.kjsl.com -v --recv B56165AA
  gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
  gpg: requesting key B56165AA from hkp server keyserver.kjsl.com
  gpg: armor header: Version: 5.0
  gpg: armor header: Comment: PGP Key Server 0.9.4+patch2+JHpatch2
  gpg: pub  1024D/B56165AA 2003-02-22  Darren Chamberlain
  gpg: key B56165AA: removed multiple subkey binding
  gpg: key B56165AA: expired signature from key CA57AD7C - skipped
  gpg: key B56165AA: expired signature from key CA57AD7C - skipped
  gpg: key B56165AA: expired signature from key CA57AD7C - skipped
  gpg: key B56165AA: expired signature from key CA57AD7C - skipped
  gpg: key B56165AA: expired signature from key CA57AD7C - skipped
  gpg: key B56165AA: expired signature from key CA57AD7C - skipped
  gpg: key B56165AA: expired signature from key CA57AD7C - skipped
  gpg: key B56165AA: expired signature from key CA57AD7C - skipped
  gpg: key B56165AA: expired signature from key CA57AD7C - skipped
  gpg: key B56165AA: expired signature from key CA57AD7C - skipped
  gpg: using classic trust model
  gpg: key B56165AA: public key "Darren Chamberlain" imported
  gpg: Total number processed: 1
  gpg:               imported: 1

("gpg --check-sigs" confirms only these sigs:

  sig!         CA57AD7C 2005-03-05  PGP Global Directory Verification Key

are on the key.)

-- 
Jason Harris           |  NIC:  JH329, PGP:  This _is_ PGP-signed, isn't it?
jharris at widomaker.com _|_ web:  http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/
          Got photons?   (TM), (C) 2004
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