[14089] in Cypherpunks
patch to PGP 2.6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cort)
Tue May 24 14:34:25 1994
From: cort <cort@ecn.purdue.edu>
To: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 13:30:29 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cort@ecn.purdue.edu (Cortland D Starrett), cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9405241450.AA16918@ah.com> from "Eric Hughes" at May 24, 94 07:50:00 am
> 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].
Agreed.
> 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.
Is "indistinguishability" the point or "interoperability"?
If the latter, then no change to generated version numbers should
be necessary/desired. I believe that 2.6 plans to read previous
versions just fine.
Cort.
