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Re: [openpgp] Intent to deprecate: Insecure primitives

Falcon Darkstar Momot <falcon@iridiumlinux.org> Wed, 18 March 2015 07:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Intent to deprecate: Insecure primitives
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No!  This is the kind of attitude that got OpenPGP into its current
usability mess!

On 17/03/2015 16:11, Bill Frantz wrote:
>> But frankly I'd like my encryption software to just maintain the ability
>> to decrypt it later.
>
> Well, the problem isn't the software. It is the user.
>
> Cheers - Bill
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