Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

Avi avi.wiki at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 00:29:51 CET 2011


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I believe Werner had mentioned that the 1.x version would
continue to be supported due to its enhanced portability, but I
could be misremembering. Can someone "official" comment as to
the viability of the 1.x trunk, please?

- --Avi
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <
> christoph.anton.mitterer at physik.uni-muenchen.de>
> To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:07:08 +0100
> Subject: Re: Future plans for implementation of other algorithms
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 15:37 -0500, Avi wrote:
> > As someone who uses GnuPG on a USB stick under Windows, I sincerely
> > hope that elliptical curves get added to the 1.4 trunk.
>
> I know this won't happen,... but I'd rather see a roadmap to phase out
> 1.x...
>
> Maintaining to branches is not only a big effort but poses also a
> constant risk wrt security/etc.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Chris.
>
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