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Re: [openpgp] Deprecating compression support

Andre Heinecke <aheinecke@gnupg.org> Wed, 20 March 2019 13:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Deprecating compression support
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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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