On Mar 22, 2019, at 2:19 AM, Werner Koch <wk(_at_)gnupg(_dot_)org> wrote:
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.
+1. Thanks, Werner.
Jon
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