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Aaron Toponce aaron.toponce at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 20:12:57 CEST 2012


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:11:57AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> I am telling for more than a decade that PGP 2 should not be used
> anymore.  The rationale for this was that OpenPGP is a standard and
> fixes great many problems of PGP 2.  GnuPG supports PGP 2 only because
> this provides a way to migrate away from PGP 2.  But: We are now in 2012
> - 20 years after PGP 2.

So, if the system can be improved by removing support for PGP2, which
includes cleaning up code, squashing bugs, and tightening security, then
why is it still around? 20 years later?

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