GnuPG 2.4.4 still using legacy packets?
Loup Vaillant
loup at loup-vaillant.fr
Thu Nov 13 08:22:39 CET 2025
>> Let's be honest, interoperability has not ben an issues for likely
>> more than a decade. [...]
>
> Ah, but that is conditional on interoperability not being an issue.
As I said, it's not. Hasn't been for many years.
Remember, the ability to read the new framing became at least a SHOULD
27 years ago. 18 years ago, the new packet types made it a MUST.
Can anyone name *one* OpenPGP implementation in notable use today that
still cannot understand the new framing? There isn't, right?
> [...] the ancient PGP
> implementations that only understand the legacy format,
But are these ancient implementations still being used today?
Where? By who?
Seriously, at this point it's not on me to prove no one such
implementation still exist. It's on you to show that it's still being
used. So far no one did. Not a single example. If there was one, then
one of you would have answered my first query with "this reader still
doesn't understand the new framing, we have to still use the old to be
compatible with it".
Loup
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