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  • 1.  GPG modern update?

    Posted Tue June 16, 2020 02:02 AM
    Hi guys,

    The version of GPG in the toolbox is 2.0.30, which was deprecated by the GNU GPG team back in 2017...!!

    Is there any likelihood of a modern version being compiled for AIX?

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    Cheers...Owen
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  • 2.  RE: GPG modern update?

    Posted Tue June 16, 2020 07:28 AM
    Thank you Owen for bringing this up.
    We will look into latest gnu gpg.

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    SANKET RATHI
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  • 3.  RE: GPG modern update?

    Posted Wed June 24, 2020 04:30 AM
    gnupg2 version 2.2.20 is now available in AIX Toolbox.
    https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/gnupg2/gnupg2-2.2.20-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
    You can also use yum to install it.

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    Ayappan P
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  • 4.  RE: GPG modern update?

    Posted Wed June 24, 2020 06:52 PM
    Great - thanks very much - will give it a test and see how we go.

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    Cheers...Owen
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  • 5.  RE: GPG modern update?

    Posted Fri November 20, 2020 02:43 AM
    Edited by Paul Zimmermann Fri November 20, 2020 03:45 PM
    How did you go with your testing?

    From my point of view this has been terrible.

    As it looks like they have just skipped a major release and made a mess of it.

    We are an FSI that sends daily encrypted data to a third party.

    To get it kind of working had to change the gpg-agent.conf file and use the --pinentry-mode loopback argument when signing and decypting.

    To make things worse, our recipient no longer could not decrypt the files?

    I am using yum, so it was easy to downgrade back to 2.0.30 and its dependencies. 

    More testing needs to be done and more documentation around the changes.

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    Paul Zimmermann
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