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Re: [openpgp] Deprecating compression support

2019-03-22 09:18:33
+1 from me!
Thanks, Werner.

-derek

Werner Koch <wk(_at_)gnupg(_dot_)org> writes:

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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