Re: Ascii Armor solution?

["William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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In <slrn6769me.jcp.lutz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 11/19/97 
   at 05:50 PM, lutz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lutz Donnerhacke) said:

>* William H. Geiger III wrote:
>>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"??

>No. The problem is not programming efforts (which is quite simple to
>handle), the problem is the KISS principle. Ascii Armor is simply
>outdated.

Well I don't believe that the case has been made that Ascii Armor is
outdated.

As far as KISS what can be more simpler than rfc822 with a PGP Ascii Armor
Block? Not to mention the fact that everyone currently using PGP can read
it.

Sorry but those wishing to drop Ascii-Armor have not made a cost/benefit
case (ie the cost of droping ascii armor out weigh the benefits of doing
so).

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