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Re: [openpgp] Deprecating compression support

2019-03-20 08:18:13
On Wednesday 20 March 2019 14:14:49 CET Vincent Breitmoser wrote:
Is your point that you would want to keep compression as a feature in those
applications, hence removing it from OpenPGP would mean you'd have to keep 
it
around unstandardized / on a different layer?

Exactly. The User Experience of Kleopatra on Windows is that you right click a 
folder and encrypt that folder. You need compression there.
Currently it is standardized. You propose to remove the standard so it will be 
unstandartized and no longer interoperable.

Regards,
Andre

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