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Re: Some suggestions
- To: IETF OpenPGP <ietf-open-pgp@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Some suggestions
- From: Werner Koch <wk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:27:10 +0200
- In-reply-to: <199804281415.QAA10642@koeln.shuttle.de>; from Lindsay Mathieson on Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 12:58:24PM +0000
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- References: <199804281415.QAA10642@koeln.shuttle.de>
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Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Why not just document the usage of zlib - A new compression algorithm would
> break existing implementations and compatibility is one of the objectives
> for the spec.
PGP used an early version of zlib which was limited to a 13 bit
compression window, the RFC documented zlib does not have this
limitation. It's okay to support the old version, but why should
I not use a newer (and documented) one as an option?
Werner