[Announce] GnuPG 1.4.1 News

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:55:23PM -0500, Jason Harris wrote:
> 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:

Huh?  Your own experiment shows they are off by default:

>   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

They can be turned ON if you want.  Like all --import-options and
--export-options, they apply to --import and --export only.  If you
want them to apply to keyserver operations, list them in
--keyserver-options.  See the manual.

David