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Re: meeting in San Francisco?

2003-03-07 06:45:56

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:37:08PM -0800, Jon Callas wrote:

It is my opinion that deprecating IDEA (which I would be happy to do) is
about the same as deprecating V3 keys.

The reason I say that is that the only reason for a V3 key is to
interoperate with PGP 2.6. PGP 2.6 has only IDEA.

Deprecating IDEA deprecates PGP 2.6, and that makes V3 keys unnecessary.

No.  PGP is not just about encryption, there's also signatures (in
particular, certification signatures).


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