Re: [openpgp] DRAFT minutes for OpenPGP at IETF 94

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Fri, 06 November 2015 14:16 UTC

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Hi Lutz,

On Fri,  6 Nov 2015 09:58, lutz@iks-jena.de said:

> Requiring the user to stick with old, unmaintained software (which might not
> even run on it's current system and can't be compiled for the new

We promised to keep on maintaining GnuPG 1.4, which is that old copy:
all RFC-4880 features.  You would need that for VMS anyway ;-).

Thus there is at least one maintained old software.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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