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Re: [openpgp] call for adoption of draft-koch-openpgp-rfc4880bis

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 27 June 2016 19:40 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: "Robert J. Hansen" <rjh@sixdemonbag.org>, "openpgp@ietf.org" <openpgp@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [openpgp] call for adoption of draft-koch-openpgp-rfc4880bis
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] call for adoption of draft-koch-openpgp-rfc4880bis
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> The presence of an algorithm in the spec tends to create pressure on
> implementations to support that algorithm.  When RFC2440 had reserved
> entries for TIGER192, there was a small but vocal crowd in the GnuPG
> community crying out, "we need TIGER192, it's in the spec!"  And as soon as
> TIGER192 was removed, those voices died out -- because hey, it's no longer
> in the spec.

Separating maintenance of the registry from the spec should address this, right?

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