Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Feb 19 09:10:57 CET 2015


On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:24, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:

>> as did a few other maintainers. However there was not only not a 
>> consensus to do this more generally, there was active opposition to 
>> doing it at all.
>
> that's a bummer :( 

I guess that is a GPL issue.  They don't want any GPLed stuff for the
core.  However, there are other implementations and in particular a
signature verification tool is pretty simple.  It might even make sense
to write one stripped down for the Ed25519 signature verification.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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