Can someone explain the reasoning behind deprecating compression ? Im
neutral on the idea, just trying to understand the benefits of getting rid
of it beyond simplifying the processing of the packets.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:51 PM Werner Koch <wk(_at_)gnupg(_dot_)org> wrote:
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:38, singpolyma(_at_)singpolyma(_dot_)net said:
g) remove compression entirely
Is the idea that compression can be handled by another format (xz,
probably) and from the OpenPGP perspective it's just "binary"? I
I guess so.
However I see a problem with the removal of compression: Almost all keys
have preferences for compression and most messages are using
compression. Thus all implementations will need to keep on supporting
de-compression which is actually the more complicated part.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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