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Re: Further deprecating PGP2

2003-03-10 15:46:49

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On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:35:27PM -0800, Jon Callas wrote:
On 3/10/03 1:26 PM, "David Shaw" <dshaw(_at_)jabberwocky(_dot_)com> wrote:

If a program implements both RFC-1991 and OpenPGP, and RFC-1991
requires IDEA, and OpenPGP requires no IDEA.... well, we could really
tie some people in knots.  It's really just word games though: does
the "OpenPGP side" of the program have IDEA?  No, but...

RFC 1991 was never standards track. It is informational. There are no knots.

Even better, even word games can become tiresome.

What do you advocate with regards to IDEA - SHOULD NOT?  MUST NOT?
something else?

David
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