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Re: [openpgp] Deprecating compression support

Marcus Brinkmann <marcus.brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Thu, 21 March 2019 00:09 UTC

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Hi Andre,

isn't gpgtar (which I assume is still used by Kleopatra on Windows to
encrypt folders) also "unstandardized" by OpenPGP?  For all practical
purposes, compressed archive formats are well-established across all
platforms, so it's unclear to me what kind of problems you fear.

Thanks,
Marcus

On 3/20/19 2:17 PM, Andre Heinecke wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 March 2019 14:14:49 CET Vincent Breitmoser wrote:
>> Is your point that you would want to keep compression as a feature in those
>> applications, hence removing it from OpenPGP would mean you'd have to keep 
> it
>> around unstandardized / on a different layer?
> 
> Exactly. The User Experience of Kleopatra on Windows is that you right click a 
> folder and encrypt that folder. You need compression there.
> Currently it is standardized. You propose to remove the standard so it will be 
> unstandartized and no longer interoperable.
> 
> Regards,
> Andre
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