Re: [openpgp] Deprecating compression support

On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:47, 
bartbutler=40protonmail(_dot_)com(_at_)dmarc(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)org
said:

> One thing we could add to the compression section would be a SHOULD
> for ZLIB as opposed to the legacy ZIP and bzip2, which is slow and
> doesn't have much of a reason to exist in my opinion. There's no real
So what about this minor change:

@@ -3322,8 +3321,9 @@ ## Compression Algorithms
  100--110  Private/Experimental algorithm
 
 Implementations MUST implement uncompressed data.  Implementations
-SHOULD implement ZIP.  Implementations MAY implement any other
-algorithm.
+SHOULD implement ZLIB.  For interoperability reasons implementations
+SHOULD be able to decompress using ZIP.  Implementations MAY implement
+any other algorithm.
 
 ## Hash Algorithms



Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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