<hr /><i>anonymous claiming to be bert added on 2011-04-18 12:17:05 UTC:</i><br />
see also:
http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg04097.html

-- this post never had any reply it seems, although DRH cares much about security and likes GPG, as far as I can see, see for example:
http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg01611.html

So I really think this request is reasonable.