Will gpg 1.x remain supported for the foreseeable future?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Jan 17 10:02:27 CET 2018


On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 03:52, rjh at sixdemonbag.org said:

> The game plan has always been to retire 1.4 as soon as practical.  Do
> not rely on it existing in the future.

Kind of: 1.4 will be kept alive for use with PGP 2 encrypted and
signated data and maybe for old platforms.  However, modern algorithms
won't be added to 1.4.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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