On 12/02/2016 17:06 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
As others have mentioned, there are
definitely reasons to keep *an* ascii armor format, especially for
key/certificate transit (ala an x509 csr/crt submission/retrieval).
An additional use is the signature in cleartext signed documents, and
incorporating the keys into cleartext signed documents so that they
carry the documents can carry own PKI.
iang
ps; personal bias - above pattern is what I do, and/or was a key
requirement for my work - but I'm not arguing to keep it for personal
reasons as I moved away from using OpenPGP for this purpose some time ago.
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