On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:08:46 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El día Tuesday, December 22, 2015 a las 03:03:39PM +0100, Neal H. Walfield > escribió: > > > > Just to make sure: there have been no v1.x keys (I move away the old > > > .gnupg dir), why are the new v2 keys in a dir named > > > .gnupg/private-keys-v1.d? > > > > I don't really understand your question, but I'll try to answer what I > > think you are asking: > > > > secring is the old format; private-keys-v1.d is the new format. GnuPG > > 1 doesn't know about the new format; GnuPG 2 only uses the new format, > > but the first time it is run it will migrate any existing keys from > > the old format to the new format. > > I understand the migration of the old v1 keys to a new form/directory; but > why the new keys of v2 are stored in a dir private-keys-v1.d and not in > a dir for example private-keys-v2.d; don't you think that such name *v1.d* > confuses > people (like me)?
v1 is the version of the format, which is independent of GnuPG's format. I can see how it would be confusing, sorry about that. :) Neal _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
