Re: Question/Bug?

Bruce Walzer via Gnupg-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 04:47:22PM -0800, Jack Baldikoski via Gnupg-users wrote:
> I've tried following Thunderbird's instructions here
> <https://mzl.la/4bFoVkJ> to make my private key RFC 4880-compatible with
> the --rfc4880 flag, but GPG does not change any of the feature flags. Am I
> doing something wrong?

Is this now no longer an issue for Thunderbird due to RNP support as
suggested in the comment in the bug report?

The --rfc4880 flag doesn't seem to affect the preferences. The Arch
Wiki suggests you do this:

    setpref AES256 AES192 AES SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224 ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP

... with expert mode. I dunno what the expert mode does. Seems to work
without.

* https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GnuPG#OpenPGP_compatibility

I note that the Arch page has gotten very partisan towards the RFC9580
faction at the expense of the LibrePGP faction. Sort of annoying.

Bruce
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