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Re: Ancient Technology

1997-11-22 19:11:19
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On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Alex Le Heux wrote:

In an ever faster changing world of computers regular users of PGP 
seem to be very reluctant to change anything.

Securaty applications tend to encourage a conservative[1] viewpoint even
when the person is noramly quite open to cahnge.  This is most likly a
good thing.

[...]

Of course there is a strong case for continuing support for AA 
(backwards compatibility and all that), but the new standard should 
not be based on it. It's ancient technology.

But as I understand this is _not_ a new standard.  It is the documentation
of an existing standard.  So it is neccery to retain backwards capasity
with pgp itself.

[1] Conservitive as meaning unwilling to change.

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