On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 01:19:42PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hello! > > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 10:23:38PM +0100, steven mestdagh wrote: > >hello, > > >aanriot@ and I were wondering if anyone is still using ancient pgp > >2.6.3, and whether it could be removed from the tree? > >It makes sense to us since this code is very old and unmaintained, and > >we have newer alternatives, like gnupg and pgp5. > > >thoughts/comments ? > > Do those newer alternatives, especially gnupg, replace *all* the > functionality of pgp 2.6.3? Especially decrypting documents encrypted > with pgp 2.6.3? Verifying pgp 2.6.3 signatures?
According to this document, that seems to be possible: http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/pgp2x.html I expect you will need the idea flavor of gnupg. > For example I haven't got pgpverify for Usenet control messages to run > with gpg. Have you tried pgp 5.0? I have no idea about this, that program is not in the ports tree either. Have you asked its developers? > Unless it's clear that I can do all this with gnupg (of course with the > idea plugin/flavor if needed), I'd not be fond of pgp 2.6.3 being > removed. You raised some valid questions, thanks. We will decide about this when we have some more input. -- steven Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
