On Sep 21, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Johan Wevers wrote:
David Shaw wrote:
If the "some people" still want this, I haven't seen it in a good
long
while. Possibly they gave up asking.
Probably. However, if someone wants IDEA support for whatever reason
there
is still the IDEA plugin. It still works with GnuPG 1.4.10 for both
Linux
and Windows, although I have not tested it with the 2.0 versions.
There is IDEA support (as this is part of OpenPGP, albeit with patent
issues), but no V3 key generation support.
To say nothing of the fact that compliant OpenPGP implementations are
explicitly banned from generating RFC-1991 keys.
Why is that? Forced upgrading?
I recall it was not so much forced upgrading, as a general feeling of
"enough already". If you take a look at the ietf-openpgp archives for
2003-2004, you'll see a few discussions around it. Mind you, the
statistics we played with at the time (4-5 years ago) showed that over
90% of keys on the keyservers were V4. I doubt that number has gone
anywhere but up since then.
Another way to look at it is that the new wording around V3 keys
(including the no-generate rule) enables someone to write an OpenPGP
implementation that has no V3 support whatsoever (something which
wasn't doable in RFC-2440).
David
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