gpg 1.3.4 doesn't warn that it is an experimental version

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Sun Nov 30 08:45:36 CET 2003


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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:20:53AM +0100, Johan Wevers wrote:
> vulcan:~> gpg --version
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.3.4
> Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
> 
> Home: ~/.gnupg
> Supported algorithms:
> Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
> Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512
> Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB
> 
> I don't see a warning that it's an experimental version. Is this
> deliberate or an oversight? I've made only 2 changes to the source,
> commenting out code in md.c so I can use the SHA384 and 512 hash
> and removed the warning when using IDEA.

The experimental version warning shows up when you actually perform an
action with gpg.  There was never an experimental version warning in
the --version output.  Perhaps there should be.  It would be an
obvious place for it.

David
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