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Re: implementing backwards compatibility

1998-04-29 03:18:36
Adam Back <aba(_at_)dcs(_dot_)ex(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk> writes:

So backwards compatibility with what pgp-2.6.x does I think should be
viewed as more important than backwards compatibility with
rfc-1991.txt.

That's okay for apps which support RSA and IDEA. For all others 
backwards compatibilty is only useful for packet formats (and maybe
for command line switches), so that keyservers are able to process 
these messages.

verify a signature (which is say DSA or Elgamal) rather than refusing
to process the whole message.  In any case pgp-2.6.x doesn't do either
of these things generally, I think.

It should be easy to add this to pgp 2.6.3in ( Lutz ? ).


Werner