[14070] in Cypherpunks
compatibility with future PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Tue May 24 10:52:17 1994
Date: Tue, 24 May 94 07:50:00 -0700
From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
The only change the future post-September PGP 2.6 messages will have
is a change in the version number byte from 2 to 3. PC's little hack
not to check version numbers will work, but as a patch it's not the
most robust. It would be more robust if it checked for the range
[2..3].
Another thing a patched 2.3 release would have to do to be fully
indistinguishable is to generate new version numbers itself after the
given date.
Eric
