On Aug 14, 2014, at 4:23 AM, David Shaw <ds...@jabberwocky.com> wrote:

> On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:20 AM, Doug Barton <do...@dougbarton.us> wrote:
> 
>> On 08/12/2014 08:41 PM, David Shaw wrote:
>>> Maybe the answer is to remove the things to generate PGP 2 messages 
>>> specifically, and leave the other stuff?
>> 
>> Yes please. :)
>> 
>> Not being able to encrypt/sign with PGP 2 at this point is totally 
>> reasonable. Not being able to decrypt/verify leads to toolchain 
>> complications down the road for people with such archives, and sends a 
>> dangerous message that we're not serious about backwards compatibility.
> 
> I think the context has been lost in that sentence.  The "other stuff" I was 
> referring to was --pgp6, --pgp7, etc.  The --pgpX options in general.  There 
> was never a question of removing the ability to decrypt PGP 2 messages.  As 
> you say, that would destroy the ability to decrypt old messages.

You are correct, I did not understand your context there. Thank you for 
clarifying. 

Doug


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