Op 15-3-2011 21:57, Ingo Klöcker schreef: > Why migrate away? Even if GnuPG 3 stops supporting RFC1991 there will > always be GnuPG 1 and GnuPG 2 around to decrypt ancient data and verify > signatures made decades ago.
If that is the case, you could also say we still have pgp 2.x arround including source code. > That's the beauty of Free Software. Nobody > can take it away and since it's Open Source it will always be possible > to compile it on new OSes (provided we will be able/allowed to install > what we want on those OSes). Current OSes pose already a problem. PGP 2 did not provide nagtive binaries for win32 so I compiled them myself, which was easy (just make a new project file in VC5, add all C files and press compile). Added benefit was long filename support. Now I have a Symbian phone and an Android tablet, but I have no idea how to decrypt messages on those devices. The source of pgp and GnuPG is freely available, but without a C compiler you need to port them to the Symbian version of C and the Google Java clone, or write a compiler yourself. The first task is a huge effort I'm not sure I could even do myself and I'm certainly not up to the second. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site: joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nl // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
