Report algorithms 2 (RSA-E) and 3 (RSA-S) as deprecated in gpg2.
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	bernhard
	Sep 22 2009, 2:34 PM

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http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2009-September/025357.html:
It seems that some GnuPG2 2.0.12 packages do not import old keys
with the deprecated
following algorithms anymore:

2          - RSA Encrypt-Only [HAC]
3          - RSA Sign-Only [HAC]

rfc4880 notes:

Encrypt-Only (2) and RSA Sign-Only are deprecated and SHOULD NOT be
generated, but may be interpreted.

Gpg1 still does it.

Certainly a defect is that the algorithm is reported as unknown.

Gpg2 should report them as deprecated if I understand Werner correctly:
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2009-September/025364.html

bernhard set Version to 2.0.12.

bernhard added a subscriber: bernhard.

It is easier to allow them than to deprecate them. Frankly there is still some
code which handles the - despit ewhat I wrote to the ML.

SVN rev 5163 in brachnes/STABLE_BRANCH-2.0. Will go into 2.0.14.