Nullify's GnuPG 1.0.7 Release 2

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Mon May 6 10:05:02 2002


On Sun, 5 May 2002 22:07:44 +0200 (MET DST), Johan Wevers said:

> It might be usefull as a security measure. And interoperability problems
> are not always an issue, however:

I disagree.  Having only minor interop problems is a big advantage of
OpenPGP over S/MIME.  Don't let us get intothe S/MIME trouble.

> But interoperability is THE issue in wanting to use RSA v3 keys.
> PGP 2 still plays an important role.

But only for the strongest set of keys in the WoT.  I don't think that
there are major problems left over with pgp 2 (RSA v3) key signatures.

  Werner