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Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple"

Stephen Paul Weber <singpolyma@singpolyma.net> Tue, 17 March 2015 15:15 UTC

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>If ASCII Armor is to be deprecated, I would hope that we at least replace
>it with something else that can be easily copied-and-pasted.

I don't think it needs to be deprecated, but certainly not all 
implementations / uses of OpenPGP in various applications need to support 
it, or even know about it.

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