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* getkey does not return revoked/expired keys - therefore it is not
possible to override it.
* Selection using +wordlist does not work.
* Always use the primary key to sign other keys.
* add listing of notation data
* Check the changes to the gpg random gatherer on all W32 platforms.
* Put a note into readme.w32 that there is a man page and a options
file; write the registry stuff in regedit format.
* Show more info does not work from edit->trust
* set default charset from nl_langinfo.
* Check that no secret temporary results are stored in the result parameter
of the mpi functions. We have already done this for mpi-mul.c
* We need another special packet at the end of a clearsign message to mark
it's end and allow for multiple signature for one message. And
add a real grammar to the code in mainproc.c
* option to set the signature expiration time for key sigs.
Rework the way we create signature subpackets - the current code
is not easy to understand.
* Option to warn when a non MDC message is decrypted?
* If there is no secure memory, allocate more memory for the secure
memory block or do it in all cases.
* add some minor things vor VMS.
* Use DSA keys with the test suite (partly done)
* Fix the bug in the mips assembler code
* Add a way to show the fingerprint of an key signator's keys
* Add an is_valid flag to each user ID.
* Do not create a secring.gpg if it is not needed; I have fixed this
sometime ago but it has later reappeared.
* Check for consistent spelling of user ID, key ID etc.
Replace "user id not found" in getkey.c by "no valid user ID found".
* Replace the printing of the user name by [self-signature] when
appropriate so that a key listing does not get clobbered.
* Using --list-only to check for recipients while decrypting may
yield an error about an unknown packet.
* Check that the way we select cipher and digest algorithms w/o
preferences is okay and make AES the default.
* Concatenated encryption messages don't work corectly - only the
first one is processed.
* Add option to put the list of recipients (from the encryption
layer) into the signatures notation data.
* Allow to update key signatures. It is also not possible to resign
an already revoked key signature.
* For FreeBSD only: spit out a message that rndcontrol (8) should be
used to enable the use of IRQs for entropy gathering.
* --passphrase-fd can't work with -cs: document this or find a way
to work around.
* export by user-IDs does only export the first matching name which leads
to a problem in cases where there are 2 keys with identically
user-IDs.
--> Check whether this is still true - yes it is.
* With option -i prompt before adding a key to the keyring and show some
info what we are about to add.
* --disable-asm should still assemble _udiv_qrnnd when needed
* Skip RO keyrings when importing a key.
[Do an access(2) when registering a keyring and add code to
keydb_locate_writable()]
* replace the keyserver stuff either by a call to a specialized
utility and SOCKSify this utility.
[David is working on this]
* Check the beginning of file to detect already compressed files (gzip,
bzip2, xdelta and some picture formats)
* Get new assembler stuff from gmp 3.1
* Use new-format headers for compressed packets.
The advantage is that a garbled zip file can be better detected.
Nice to have
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* use DEL and ^H for erasing the previous character (util/ttyio.c).
or better readline.
* Print a warning if the directory mode is wrong.
* preferences of hash algorithms are not yet used.
* add test cases for invalid data (scrambled armor or other random data)
* add checking of armor trailers
* the pubkey encrypt functions should do some sanity checks.
* "gpg filename.tar.gz.asc" should work like --verify (-sab).
* for messages created with "-t", it might make sense to append the
verification status of the message to the output (i.e. write something to
the --output file and not only to stderr.
Things we won't do
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* New option --file-remove path-to-wipe-program ?