On Mar 19, 2019, at 2:41 AM, Vincent Breitmoser <look@my.amazin.horse> wrote:
I'm unsure why both Jon and you think we need a slower "reasonable pace", when
we have not only one but two very sharp points to make this cut as clean as
can
be? Both AEAD and the v5 key format already break compatibility. Why pull
something over the edge that we want to phase out anyways?
I’m going to quibble over “two” and say that we have one — simplification of an
overall implementation.
The second one has had comments on before. I’ll pick up some more in another
missive relating to things people have said today.
To address your point, as I said in my long missive, you can do this today. No
changes are needed to the protocol. All you have to do is put a compression
preference on your key that says no compression, and then you won’t get
compression. (Well, to be completely correct, if someone compresses then
they’re non-compliant to the standard.) Repeating myself, I support and
encourage implementations to do that by default.
Since you can do it today, there’s no need to rush. There are other people who
have their own legitimate needs for it.
Does this make sense?
Jon
_______________________________________________
openpgp mailing list
openpgp(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/openpgp