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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: PGP 2 support
From:       Bernhard Reiter <bernhard () intevation ! de>
Date:       2001-10-29 16:01:21
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:27:45AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:34:08 +0200, Marc Mutz said:
> 
> > Since gpgme will do so much for us in the next release (S/MIME and 
> > OpenPGP), would it be acceptable to drop PGPi support for a version or 
> > two until we have either a gpgme backend, or a new kpgp, which does not 
> 
> I assume PGPi is support for pgp 2.
> 
> PGP 2 has a couple of security problems which have benn addressed with
> OpenPGP, so I am in favor of dropping PGP 2 support entirely.  It is
> qpossible to verify PGP 2 created message using GnuPG without any
> hassles. 

The Ägypten-Projekt is about Free Software only.
Supporting PGP is beyond is outside of the project's scope.
Personally I also think it is the wrong signal to further support
pgp or patented algorithms of any kind.

	Bernhard

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