Re: Lutz formal spec / ROT-13 persists

[David Formosa <dformosa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Adam Back wrote:

> I that the inclusion of ROT-N was a joke on the part of Jon Callas,
> and that it had been removed from the draft.

I beleave that as ROT-N has the property of being able to calculated in
side a persons head it should be retained for debugging.  

> I would suggest in the interests of security that it be removed from
> the formal spec also.

As ROT-N is a MAY requiremnt, just an entery on a table I do not beleave
that it would reduce security.  If you are afread that it would be used in
production code perhaps we should inculde a warning in the RFC about
its use.

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