Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME

Jean-David Beyer jeandavid8 at verizon.net
Sat May 19 15:50:51 CEST 2018


On 05/19/2018 09:00 AM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> On 19.05.18 14:15, Werner Koch wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 May 2018 12:18, patrick at enigmail.net said:
>>
>>> How far back will that solution work? I.e. is this supported by all
>>> 2.0.x and 2.2.x versions of gpg?
>>
>> 2.0.19 (2012) was the first to introduce DECRYPTION_INFO  In any case
>> 2.0 is end-of-life.  In theory we could backport that to 1.4 but I don't
>> think that makes sense.
> 
> Enigmail runs on many long-term Linux distributions that still ship
> older, presumably patched, versions of GnuPG. For example, Red Hat EL
> 6.9/Centos 6.9 contains GnuPG 2.0.14, but current versions of Thunderbird.
> 
> GnuPG 2.0.x will therefore still be relevant for me for many years to come.
> 
Me too!

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 (Santiago)
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64
gnupg2-2.0.14-8.el6.x86_64
Enigmail 2.0.4

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