* William H. Geiger III wrote: >I have to agree here, so long as there is a *large* userbase of 2.6.x >users Ascii Armor is far from outdated. I see very little advantage here There is no problem. The is a *large* userbase of 2.6.x AND MIME compilant software. Nearly everybody can pipe a base64 encoded stream as a pure octet stream into any current version of PGP.