Should GnuPG 1.4.x be revived?
Karel Klic
kklic at redhat.com
Tue Jul 13 08:54:06 UTC 2010
Hi,
several users of Emacs and one user of Vim complained in rhbz#574406 [1]
that they can no longer use their editor to open and edit gpg-encrypted
files in Fedora 13.
The reason is that GnuPG 1.4 was deprecated after Fedora 12 release, and
GnuPG 2 was introduced to replace it. However, GnuPG 2 is not entirely
compatible with GnuPG 1.4.
I looked at GnuPG 2 and it seems that it would be very difficult to
modify Emacs and Vim to support it. GnuPG 2 does not allow to enter a
password using shell -- it needs entire terminal (as it uses ncurses
program pinentry-curses).
Text editors can use only shell to send a password to GnuPG.
What about reviving GnuPG 1.4? It is maintained, secure, supported, and
its integration into text editors is used extensively and works well. It
can live alongside GnuPG 2.
What do you think? Any idea how to solve this issue?
Thanks,
Karel
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=574406
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