-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 03-09-2015 a las 19:46, Robert J. Hansen escribió: >> IMHO, it would be desirable that the current version can still >> open old data, even if it refuses to encrypt that way. But maybe >> keeping the decrypt old data capability has some inconveniences. > > Here's the question I really want people to answer: "At what point > do we tell people, 'no, that data format has been obsolete for > twenty years, we're not going to support it any more, it's not even > close to conforming to the RFCs we implement'?"
Yes, people should stop using things that are seriously outdated and proven unsafe. > If you say "for as long as people have that traffic," then you've > just given GnuPG an open-ended commitment to supporting PGP 2.6 > *forever*. I was thinking about being able to access old data that was encrypted with PGP 2.6 standad, not about creating new data using that standard, so, *if possible*, it would be nice to have read-only backward compatibility. > There are still people using Apple IIes and Appleworks to manage > their business spreadsheets. And some time ago, I found an old QPro spreadsheet that had survived somehow in a backup CD. I don't remember if I could open it. But I do remember once I had to find a way to open a old ms-writer file I needed to read. Best Regards -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJV6PpkAAoJEMV4f6PvczxAUYAH/1Wjtd2YyF/IYEmQ4G2TN5Jt B1JxIcP5EwHQRtviVyfHeKTIsOpaHIEQyNAbBo22EMudMDIM1yJCV77uNgFoNLdT /z0Q9c1ycuCHwiJS+QXsuyUJghLB70NiTarPjz3W5gmYB2jpYfNb/McaJ941ROaY yfMtNMAGIadpZ+l89hMK2nPAqByWmmAzKpAlmddCll6eG8ikz34QALCBNgAt+Zp9 2n8N5YVnJBnskBP5el88gZTGLzUFWed/kJ1fA+OkxIbKQC+S6iUSfLiJAf8zJCCx LvI2rrkHDcSPtiAW2d/Qu+zICG07Rh11nJnMqNmr9xUPagbd0wMzOA0VaIsSxc8= =6vku -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
