Re: Gpg 1.4 Renato

"Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users" <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:31:18 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.user
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> Of course not. But there is a sub-sets of users that do
> share *a "class" of adversaries*, one that was - for
> whatever reason - historically not considered possible
> or practical or proper to protect the users of GnuPG from.

If your defense of this notion is to make a sweeping generality, then 
retreat to a special case, then retreat further to a more-special case, 
then I'm going to just stop here.

> solution. But for a *subset of users*, needing only a
> *subset of functionality*, such devices are available,
> in quantity and at (practically) no cost.

And they are called Yubikeys. Get one.

> All that is missing is "1.4 Renato".

"All that's missing is..." is the software engineering equivalent of 
loudly screaming profanities in church during the middle of Mass. It's 
just not done.

> The work required to
> exorcise the 2.x gumbo of (to them) useless features and
> cut down WOT flotsam to size is not at all extraordinary.

That's an extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary evidence.

> across, I apologize unreservedly). I am just politely asking,
> and suggesting a *growing* set of users would benefit.

Until such time as you go out into the field and *find these users*, 
they don't exist and their niche need will not influence development.

And that's as it should be.

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