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--- pgpfan:interop [2024/10/06 05:20] – [Implications] forgot the links again. b.walzer
+++ pgpfan:interop [2024/10/11 15:38] (current) – [Implications] Came up with another one. b.walzer
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   - It is //not// OK to unilaterally start encrypting messages using a new method at any time.
   - It is necessary to wait until there is widespread decryption support, as close to 100% as practically feasible, before emitting messages encrypted with a new mode. This will normally be years. It is necessary to at least wait for the old implementations to be updated everywhere.
+  - Attempting to improve the situation with your proposed new mode by suggesting it is "optional" just makes things worse. The availability of such a mode would be less certain than with a more strongly proposed mode. An implementation should avoid emitting messages/files using an "optional" mode. It is OK to do your own thing in some situations, but the idea that OpenPGP should incorporate the idea of "optional" modes should be resisted. Such modes are only helpful in negotiating protocols like TLS.
 Adding a new, incompatible mode, to the OpenPGP ecosystem turns out to be a difficult political problem that greatly overshadows any mere technical issues.