Re: GnuPG modern can't genereate keys on my Windows

2015-09-04 Thread Dongsheng Song
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 11:17, dongsheng.s...@gmail.com said: > >> Yes, I build gnupg 2.1.7 for 32 bit and 64 bit Windows with the latest >> libgcrypt and pinentry. > > Funny, 64 bit Windows is not supported by GnuPG. > It's really works, you can

Re: uploading subkeys

2015-09-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 15:44, marko.bauha...@mailbox.org said: > As far as i know it is possible to upload a sub key via the id of the sub key > ending with the exclamation mark `!`. You may use this notation to force the use of this subkey. However, an OpenPGP key(block) always consists of a prim

Re: uploading subkeys

2015-09-04 Thread Marko Bauhardt (private)
> You can either upload the whole public set or none of it, you can't or > at least I know of no way of uploading only the public part of the sub keys. As far as i know it is possible to upload a sub key via the id of the sub key ending with the exclamation mark `!`. I mean does it make sense to

Re: FAQ: drop mention of 1.4?

2015-09-04 Thread Samir Nassar
On Friday, September 04, 2015 09:54:58 AM Johan Wevers wrote: > On 04-09-2015 0:46, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > 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 m

Re: FAQ: drop mention of 1.4?

2015-09-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 09:54, joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nl said: > Never IMO. This attitude leads to data being lost forever because new > software can't read it anymore while the cost of adding read-only > support is small. No, that is entirely wrong. The whole PGP-2 stuff has been removed and thus mos

Re: FAQ: drop mention of 1.4?

2015-09-04 Thread Johan Wevers
On 04-09-2015 0:46, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > 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'?"