And that is my opinion, too. Some people have the necessity to decrypt old data, so there should be a separate tool for them to do exactly that. It's the only way to start off fresh.
But I believe many people shouting out against the developers really have no such reason. They are described very well with the word "hater" and can be disregarded. Am 21.05.2018 um 05:19 schrieb Mark Rousell: > On 21/05/2018 02:12, Jochen Schüttler wrote: >> I'm all for breaking backwards compatibility. >> >> What's the worst the haters can do? Turn their back on GnuPG? Shout out >> really loud once more? I think they should get a life! > I rather suspect they do have a life supporting scenarios that they > cannot change that require legacy-decryption capability. > > If legacy-decryption was removed entirely from current versions of GnuPG > then they would simply have to continue using old, unsupported, and > potentially vulnerable versions. I do not think it is reasonable to just > cut them off entirely. > > As Philipp Klaus Krause [1] and Dirk Gottschalk [2] pointed out above, > breaking backward compatibility does not have to be (and should not be > in my opinion) absolute. The ability to decrypt old, legacy-encrypted > data is, like it or not, still present in the real world and it is > therefore surely proper for GnuPG to retain the ability to decrypt such > data in maintained code (albeit whilst requiring users to take action to > make changes to their configuration to be able to continue decrypting > such data using GnuPG). > > I agree with those who say that there is no need for mail clients to be > able to decrypt legacy-encrypted data. > > > > > [1] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/060473.html > [2] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/060474.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
