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Re: Preparing a new draft.../ PGP versions 5 and later / ciphertext-format query.....

2001-08-21 10:18:00

I believe that PGP 5.0/5.0i is the MINIMUM BASIC version of the software
that
end-users should use.  That version is available for IBM PC-DOS/MS-DOS,
and 
supports CAST/Diffie-Hellman, as well as IDEA/RSA algorithms and
protocols. 


BTW: Why was Radix-64 developed; and what are the problems of having
ciphertext
output as a hexadecimal file? 

/signed/ Joe Tag,Jr. 

On 21 Aug 2001 17:54:28 +0200 Florian Weimer
<Florian(_dot_)Weimer(_at_)RUS(_dot_)Uni-Stuttgart(_dot_)DE> writes:

Jon Callas <jon(_at_)callas(_dot_)org> writes:

I agree with you that in a perfect world we'd make it mandatory, 
but people
would howl if we did. If we want to move to that as a goal, step 
one is to
deprecate 2.6.

You could at least mark it 'obsolescent'. ;-)

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