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Re: [openpgp] Intent to deprecate: Insecure primitives

David Leon Gil <coruus@gmail.com> Mon, 16 March 2015 21:11 UTC

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From: David Leon Gil <coruus@gmail.com>
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Cc: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>, Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>, "openpgp@ietf.org" <openpgp@ietf.org>, "dgil@yahoo-inc.com" <dgil@yahoo-inc.com>
Subject: Re: [openpgp] Intent to deprecate: Insecure primitives
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On Monday, March 16, 2015, Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com> wrote:

> On 3/16/15 at 6:51 AM, warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins) wrote:
>
>  Oh, you expected me to decrypt/re-encrypt my encrypted email as I got
>> it???
>>
>
> [...] I probably have a bunch of old PGP encrypted email I can't read
> anymore because I don't have the secret key, or its passphrase. If that
> mail had been re-encrypted in a format that I decrypt every day, I would
> still be able to read the mail.


Yep. Same boat here, actually. I think this is something that is better for
security and better for usability.

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