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Re: [openpgp] whitespace definitions in OpenPGP [was: Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-01.txt]

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Tue, 16 February 2021 09:15 UTC

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To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] whitespace definitions in OpenPGP [was: Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-01.txt]
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On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 18:56, Daniel Kahn Gillmor said:

> It seems clear to me that the text about whitespace that was merged into
> -01 doesn't have WG consensus at the moment -- iiuc, it may address the

The problem with such minor changes is that they require extensive
interop tests.  Back when we started with OpenPGP we had to tweak these
things a lot until all 3 implementations were interoperable.

If we really want to make the definition more strict, lets do this after
all chartered changes have been done.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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