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Re: about MDCs etc (Re: Long Holiday?)

1998-07-10 14:12:30
It's too late to get MDCs into OpenPGP 1.0. We're in last call, and as good
as an idea it is, it's too late. I'm going to have the really, really final
one out this afternoon (I'm editing it in another window).

If you can design something that is wholly backwards-compatible, it'll be
trivial to put it in 1.1 or simple document it as an extension. Not being
in 1.0 won't be an issue

If you can't design something backward compatible, then it's too late to go
in 1.0. Either way, it doesn't make it.

        Jon



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