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Re: The case against redundancy and isolation

1997-11-21 14:59:06
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On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Jim McCoy wrote:

Contrary to the claims
being made, a vast majority of the mail agents in use today support
reading MIME message 

While this is true, mime complient newsreaders are not as commen.  I would
argue for the armor to be retained for news.

[...]

Eliminating Ascii Armor has nothing to do with the security of the
system

Agreed but I beleave that backwards capasity would cause a reduction of
the system's securaty.  Open-PGP should be capatable with PGP or we can't
call it PGP.

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