Re: Armour

["John W. Noerenberg" <jwn2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2:37 PM +0000 11/15/97, Ian Brown wrote:
>
>I'm not arguing that we should totally do away with armour - just that I
>don't think it should be a MUST, so that people who want to use OpenPGP
>in their program or standard minimally, with no need for backwards
>compatibility, can do it with as little problem as possible.
>

This is probably closest to my own point of view, Ian.  The ability to
generate and accept ascii armor must be preserved for backwards
compatibility.  However, successfully encoding and decoding a message
should not mandate translation through ascii armor.

john  w noerenberg, ii
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