On Wednesday 16 March 2011, Johan Wevers wrote: > 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.
Sure. That's definitely an option for old data that can be decrypted with PGP 2. > > 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. The good thing is that you are not alone. ;-) And if nobody wants to do it you still have the option to pay somebody for doing it. Regards, Ingo
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