Peter Gutmann wrote:
nisse%lysator.liu.se@localhost (=?iso-8859-1?q?Niels_M=F6ller?=)It doesn't look like a central piece of the infrastructure. So at least I wouldn't mind having it changed now.Oh, in that case I'd be all for it - I had the feeling there'd be grumblings about "It's too late to change now".
It is a little late, especially since this is the only way of portably getting keys around the place. If implementors are advised to handle reading both formats for a transitory period, I guess that would be enough to keep users quiet (though generating a key with new-version of App A and not being able to get App B to use it is still a bit of an interop disaster...)
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