Re: Long Holiday?

["John W. Noerenberg" <jwn2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:40 PM +0100 7/8/98, Adam Back wrote:
>The other thing which I raised was MACs (or MDCs) to prevent against
>Gary Howlands attack first discussed at HIP97.  PGP made statements
>about fixing it back then.
>
>Now I am not particularly arguing that the necessary changes go into
>this version, because it is rather late in the day and it needs some
>careful thought, however it would be most nice if implementations of
>OpenPGP 1.0 could cope with OpenPGP 2.0 messages which did contain
>MACs without falling over.

Oh, yes, Adam.  There hadn't been much discussion.  It slipped past me.
Jon, is Adam's description sufficient for you to write something for -06?

How much heartache does adding this cause implementors (and if it does, can
you really afford not to deal with it)?
john noerenberg
jwn2@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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