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Re: [openpgp] Intent to deprecate: Insecure primitives

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Sat, 14 March 2015 12:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Intent to deprecate: Insecure primitives
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On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 02:22, coruus@gmail.com said:

> 2. Yahoo and GnuPG have both already deprecated V3 public keys for any
> use. We recommend that other implementations do the same.

Only for GnuPG-2.  We keep on maintainog 1.4 so that existisng dat dan
still be decrupted.

> Yahoo has deprecated, and intends to disable support for all uses, of
> the following primitives and packet types specified for use with
> OpenPGP v4:

This is what the preference system is all about.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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