Re: gpg 1.4

> Is there a special reason not to upgrade to the current version?

Using gpg 2.x on an air-gaped computer would put an
unsustainable burden on my user population.

Perhaps architects of software such as gnupg should pay more
attention to the postulate expressed by Ben Laurie and
Abe Singer in their "...Red Pill and the Blue Pill" paper:

*Our position is that the general-purpose operating system is
fundamentally inadequate for trusted operations. One can have
a general-purpose system or a trusted system, but one cannot
get both in a single package.*

R.B.