On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 16:21, Robert J. Hansen said: > generating certificates on GnuPG 1.4. But please, please, please, stop > using 1.4 already. Switch to the 2.6 series.
I can only repeat that. Thanks for mentioning this, Rob. Now that I attended this mail thread anyway, let me assure that I will never accept a backdoor in GnuPG or related libraries. I spent the majority of my working life on that software [1] and the reason I got into this was and still is privacy for the people. Meanwhile my company is on very solid financial grounds and I actually could stop working and keep on helping with GnuPG maintenance and oversee developments without financial compensation. Gpg4win, our Windows installer, is very likely what most people are using for end-to-end encryption of mail and to protect data at rest. The very same software is also the base for GnuPG VS-Desktop which is used in Germany, Europe, Japan and even by some companies in the US. In particular we build an NSIS installer for Gpg4win and by using this very installer along with custom configuration files and extra documentation we transform this into an MSI installer. That MSI is what we give to our government and industrial customer along with a support contract. Thus all code you see in gpg4win is also in the GnuPG VS-Desktop. Any backdoor would be there as well. We would be entirely crazy trying to implement a backdoor; our repudiation would we dead and this is what make up our business. All my colleagues and co-hackers are also strong privacy advocates and share my view. The chat control idea is only one idea on how to throw away citizen rights. The EU as well as other states and organization are trying to protect themselves from their citizens. For example the EU is currently setting up the “Expert Group for a technology Roadmap in Encryption” [2] to plan ahead for more control. Take care and beware of newspeak. Shalom-Salam, Werner [1] A post on the GnuPG history from 2007 https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/a-decade-of-gnupg.txt [2] EU encryption roadmap https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=4005 -- The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service. - A. Einstein
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