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Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple"

Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> Tue, 17 March 2015 15:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple"
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Wyllys Ingersoll <wyllys@gmail.com> writes:

> Agree.  Perhaps there could multiple optional-to-implement formats - ASCII
> Armor, JSON, pure base64, XML (*ugh*), etc - each specified separately.
>
> 4880 section 6 has a very detailed description of the ASCII format - should
> that be pulled out into a separate document and just referenced in the core
> spec?

It could, but that actually *adds* complexity instead of reducing it.

IMHO it's much nicer, from an implementation point of view, to have
everything in one document instead of having to go off and reference a
dozen or more documents.

If you don't want to implement section 6 in your implementation then
just skip section 6.

-derek
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