On 21/05/2018 04:14, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > On 05/20/2018 08:51 PM, Jeremy Davis wrote: >> I just read the awesome article "Efail: A Postmortem" by Robert Hansen. >> >> Thanks for this Robert. Great work! >> >> As suggested by Robert, I've signed up to say: >> >> Break backwards compatibility already: it’s time. Ignore the haters. I >> trust you! :) >> > One of the problems with Windows is that they preserved the backwards > compatibility for far too long, so they could never clean it up enough > to make it any good. I admit that Windows 7 is better than Windows XP > that was much better than Windows 95.
Different mindsets. You call it a problem but from the perspective of a great many Windows users, backwards compatibility (i.e. stability) is a key feature, not a bug. However, GnuPG clearly can make backwards-incompatible progress without dropping all maintained support for legacy decryption. -- Mark Rousell
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