Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can the legacy HAVE_LIBGCRYPT_AEAD check be removed?

From: "Dr. Matthias St. Pierre" <Matthias.St.Pierre@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:40:15 +0000
> If some changes were done to fix the compilation, it means that some people still use a libgcrypt version older than 1.6.0.
> And as seen in our CMakeLists.txt file, the minimum version required for now is 1.5.0.

I understand your reluctancy to upgrade the requirements, but don’t you think that ten years is a *very long* time to support
an old cryptographic library (libgcrypt 1.5.0 was released in 2011-06-29), just because somebody out there might still be using it?

Matthias

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