[14093] in Cypherpunks
Re: compatibility with future PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue May 24 15:31:34 1994
To: perry@imsi.com
Cc: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 24 May 94 14:12:42 -0400.
<9405241812.AA02712@snark.imsi.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 94 15:27:28 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> 1) You have a friend with an old PGP who wants to send you mail and
> who can't get a new PGP. Old PGP will read old PGP generated files,
> but new will not read old.
Wrong, Perry. Go read the announcement again. 2.6 will read old
messages, but after sept 1 it will start generating incompatible
messages that old versions cannot read.
-derek
