On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 04:41, pgut001(_at_)cs(_dot_)auckland(_dot_)ac(_dot_)nz
said:
The "ASCII armoring" was written in order to, among other things, allow PGP
to traverse Fidonet systems running on MSDOS with 2400bps modems. That's
Right. And that, along with the slower boxes we had back then, was the reason
for the ASCII Armor's checksum. I am all in favor of dropping the
requirement for that checksum.
what it dates back to. It should have died a long, long time ago, we can
send pretty much any other binary-only format over pretty much any
medium in
That is not true. How do you want to paste binary data into a contact
web form or a Git commit message? The OpenPGP Armor makes this really
easy and, fwiw, X.509 uses a similar armoring technique.
Of course you could argue that this should not be part of OpenPGP
proper, but given 25 years of existence it would be surprising to factor
this out to a different RFC.
Regarding PGP/MIME, it might be worth to consider dropping the need for
the ASCII armor in favor of standard MIME encoding. This would also
help to sort out faulty PGP/MIME implementations.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
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