On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:07:28PM -0800, Jon Callas wrote:
The easiest of all (assuming that there's WG agreement) is
deprecating old keys. Get rough consensus, and it's about a
half-hour work from me.
While I have frequently complained to myself about some odd corner
case involving v3 keys, and life would undoubtedly be simpler without
them, I do wonder what practical difference deprecating v3 keys would
have.
GnuPG already refuses to generate new v3 keys, and PGP asks the user
to reconsider before making one. I doubt any OpenPGP program could
stop supporting existing v3 keys any time soon. Last I looked, over
90% of the keys on the public keyservers were v4. I think the natural
evolution of OpenPGP has already deprecated v3 keys for us..
David