On 1/18/26 19:07, Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users wrote:
What prevents simply running GPG 2.x on an Eee PC or other recycled
low- spec hardware?
IIRC, he's supporting a WinXP user whose workflow has pieces that only
work with GnuPG 1.4. I'm speculating that something like
[GPGtray/WinPT] might be in use.
If that is the case, said user needs to migrate operating systems post
haste.
Windows has *never* really been secure; even an air-gapped Windows box
is questionable without extensive procedures to validate/sanitize the
data in/out. (Remember Stuxnet, anyone? It actually targeted XP, if I
recall correctly.)
A user able to manage the precautions needed to make (even an
air-gapped) Windows box vaguely secure is certainly able to dispense
with that complexity and use GNU/Linux.
There is a subset of GPG 1.4 functionality (RSA-4096, for one example)
that is still secure today, but GPG 2.x also has that functionality.
There is no good reason to use GPG 1.4 for current traffic.
-- Jacob
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