On 18-01-2022 15:54, Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users wrote: >> Well, a bit more respect for backwards compatibility would help a lot >> by that. Now I'm forced to keep an 1.4 and pgp 2.6 version installed >> just to be able to read all my old data. Some people just refuse to >> update to versions that routinely break backwards compatibility. > > You've had literally 27 years to migrate your data. I have zero sympathy.
Migrate? That data is in my mail archive. While it would be possible for me to write a program to scan the mail file for pgp blockes, check which pgp version is used, decrypt the data, re-encrypt it with a modern gpg version and replace that textblock, it would still lose information about dates and signatures. Those who are confined to mail clients that use binary file formats (read: Outlook) don't have that option unless you know a way to do that in .pst files. How I can do that with mail located at my provider, who probably does not give me write access to the raw mailbox file, is also a mystery to me. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users