El día Tuesday, December 22, 2015 a las 03:03:39PM +0100, Neal H. Walfield 
escribió:

> > Just to make sure: there have been no v1.x keys (I move away the old
> > .gnupg dir), why are the new v2 keys in a dir named 
> > .gnupg/private-keys-v1.d?
> 
> I don't really understand your question, but I'll try to answer what I
> think you are asking:
> 
> secring is the old format; private-keys-v1.d is the new format.  GnuPG
> 1 doesn't know about the new format; GnuPG 2 only uses the new format,
> but the first time it is run it will migrate any existing keys from
> the old format to the new format.

I understand the migration of the old v1 keys to a new form/directory; but
why the new keys of v2 are stored in a dir private-keys-v1.d and not in
a dir for example private-keys-v2.d; don't you think that such name *v1.d* 
confuses
people (like me)?

        matthias
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