Re: Ascii Armor solution?

[Ian Brown <I.Brown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have a proposal for the group in a effort to put the Ascii-Armor
> question to rest.
> 
> I will release my subroutines w/source for ascii-armor encoding/decoding
> into the public domain. That way everyone will have them available to use
> as they wish free of charge.
> 
> Will this be an acceptable solution to the "problem"??

Such freely available toolkits already exist (see, for example,
http://www.systemics.com/software/cryptix-java/)

This does not alter the fact that implementors would need to download,
understand, and adapt such code to work in their subsequently bloated
application.

Paul Hoffman wrote, quoting you:

> >This is silly, I really can't see anyone saying "I'm not going to support
> >PGP because it uses ASCII armor encoding".
> 
> By itself, no. But if we require lots of other things that make it that
> much harder for people to implement (such as requiring them being able to
> handle all the earlier packet formats), they will probably have the same
> attitude as they have had up to now: "I won't bother". That hurts all of
> us, and is one of the driving forces for us to make a simple and useful spec.

Ian.