Deprecating or removing EAX mode (Re: Standards: IETF WG proposing incompatible despite implementations and objections)

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Fri Apr 28 09:56:18 CEST 2023


Bruce, Jeff,

Am Donnerstag 27 April 2023 18:44:33 schrieb Jeffrey Walton via Gnupg-devel:
> Perhaps it would be better to deprecate EAX mode, and suggest it not
> be used for new messages. It might even be enforced by making it
> runtime configurable, and defaulting to off.

can any of you, or both, propose this on the OpenPGP WG mailinglist,
like Andrew suggested?

It maybe a minor point afterall, but at least one clarified.

Best Regards,
Bernhard


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