From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: GnuPG
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 21:22:32 +0100
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Hello,

As far as I know we do not use any exotic functionality.

The main (and maybe even only) user is pakfire, if that works we are fine. If=
 that breaks, we are a bit screwed :)

-Michael

> On 27 Mar 2021, at 21:39, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>=20
> Hi Peter,
>=20
> On 27/03/2021 21:11, Peter M=C3=BCller wrote:
>> Hello Adolf,
>> hello development folks,
>> sorry for my tardy reply.
> No problems. I know you have been and are very busy people.
>>> Is IPFire using the 1.4 Branch because there is some historic requirement=
 for the older insecure keys.
>> (Assuming this was a question:) To my knowledge, we do not have key materi=
al in operation that would not
>> be supported by GnuPG 2.x - the "classic" branch simply is more lightweigh=
t than the 2.x branch.
>> The last time I looked at this, GnuPG 2.x required some flavour of the "pi=
nentry" helper for entering
>> passphrases, and won't compile without. Since there is no manual interacti=
on on a firewall, "pinentry"
>> is useless, but I was unable to work out how to omit it in GnuPG 2.x .
> Thanks for the heads up on this.
>> Things could have been changed, meanwhile. Perhaps this is now possible, s=
o if you have some spare time
>> to look at this, go ahead. :-)
> I will give it a try. The worst that can happen is that I can't get it work=
ing and we stay with the status quo which is working currently.
>> Thank you very much in advance for your efforts - and all your patches of =
the last weeks.
> I am glad to help where I can.I know I can't help you with the real core st=
uff, my capabilities aren't sufficient but I can generally help with providin=
g update patches on anything that I find has newer versions.
>=20
> Regards,
> Adolf
>=20
>> Thanks, and best regards,
>> Peter M=C3=BCller


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