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Re:EFail – Vulnerabilities in end-to-end encryption technolo... by LinuxBender on Monday May 14, 2018 @12:07PM (#17066655)
What would be the most sensible steps forward for the PGP maintainers? Is this a rewrite, or can they iterate though and make incremental improvements around the flaws that have been discussed over the past decade?
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Re:EFail – Vulnerabilities in end-to-end encryption technolo... by Natanael_L on Monday May 14, 2018 @01:11PM (#17067246)
A bit of both. We can fix a few bits in compatible ways, but it's not a reliable long term solution.

Long term, we really need an upgrade that breaks compatibility with old unfixable clients

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