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1. benfell (benfell)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2014 09:58:35 EST benfell

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   #GnuPG 2.1.0 is out: secring.gpg is no longer used, but the announcement doesn't say how secret keys are now maintained. !security
   • Joshua Judson Rosen repeated this.
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2014 12:37:35 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • benfell
     #GnuPG 2.1.0 feature-overview doc says, most parts of the system no longer know about secring storage at all: https://www.gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html#nosecring
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2014 12:41:34 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • benfell
     I'm a little conservative WRT major revs of !security software: trying to decide now, is it finally time to upgrade from #GnuPG 1.4 to 2.0?
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2014 12:53:03 EST Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

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     • Joshua Judson Rosen
     GnuPG v1.4 and v2.1 are both supported and under active development; v1.4 is completely functional and is reasonably lightweight; v2.x has more comprehensive commands and additional support for things like S/MIME and ssh — if you're using v1.4 and it's doing everything you need then there's no reason to switch to 2.x
   • benfell (benfell)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2014 12:59:52 EST benfell

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     • Joshua Judson Rosen
     @rozzin can't see why one would upgrade to 2.0. 2.1 supports ECC, although that seems to have been backported into 2.0 on #FreeBSD and some Linux distributions.
   • benfell (benfell)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2014 13:03:18 EST benfell

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     • Joshua Judson Rosen
     @rozzin I'm not sure the abstraction is really an enhancement. For me, !security needs to be kept simple. #KISS