Re: implementing backwards compatibility

[Werner Koch <wk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Back <aba@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> So backwards compatibility with what pgp-2.6.x does I think should be
> viewed as more important than backwards compatibility with
> rfc-1991.txt.

That's okay for apps which support RSA and IDEA. For all others 
backwards compatibilty is only useful for packet formats (and maybe
for command line switches), so that keyservers are able to process 
these messages.

> verify a signature (which is say DSA or Elgamal) rather than refusing
> to process the whole message.  In any case pgp-2.6.x doesn't do either
> of these things generally, I think.

It should be easy to add this to pgp 2.6.3in ( Lutz ? ).


Werner