decrypt aes256 encrypted file without gpg-agent

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 00:55, Johan Wevers said:

>> Do not use 1.4 unless you have to decrypt old non-MDC protected data or
>> data encrypted to a legacy v3 key.
>
> Do not break backwards compatibility if you want all people to upgrade.

Do not update so that the bad guys can exploit your legacy software ;-)

There are well documented reasons what we don't support MDC and PGP3
keys anymore - it was complex to support and virtually impossible to
make sure that the message has not been tampered with.  See the
discussion around EFFail of MUAs using gpg in a brittle and insecure
way.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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