With the release of modern, is there intent to support ECC in classic?

2014-11-06 Thread Avi
Good morning/afternoon/evening. I know that this has been discussed previously, but now that GnuPG modern has been released with ECC support, is there the intention to add that support to the classic build in the near-to-internediate future? Thank you, Avi User:Avraham pub 3072D/F80E29F9

Re: With the release of modern, is there intent to support ECC in classic?

2014-11-06 Thread Robert J. Hansen
I know that this has been discussed previously, but now that GnuPG modern has been released with ECC support, is there the intention to add that support to the classic build in the near-to-internediate future? The last this was discussed the answer was no. It's been some months since then, but

Re: With the release of modern, is there intent to support ECC in classic?

2014-11-06 Thread Avi
Understood, Werner and Rob, thank you for the clarification. I'll try to install a minimal version of GnuPG 2.1 and see how that works. As always, the work of the GnuPG developers, maintainers, and supporters is greatly appreciated! Avi User:Avraham pub 3072D/F80E29F9 1/30/2009 Avi

Re: With the release of modern, is there intent to support ECC in classic?

2014-11-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 16:15, avi.w...@gmail.com said: I know that this has been discussed previously, but now that GnuPG modern has been released with ECC support, is there the intention to add that support to the classic build in the near-to-internediate future? No. It would be too hard. In

Re: With the release of modern, is there intent to support ECC in classic?

2014-11-06 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 06/11/14 17:45, Werner Koch wrote: In case your problem is the pinentry: The agent now provides a loopback pinentry option which basically brings back the version 1 Pinentry prompts. Perhaps this warrants a mention on the what's new FAQ page, for people that are using 1.4 for that specific