From: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 03:18:06 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: [PGP-USERS] New International Version (fwd)
Message-ID: <199704081017.MAA02946@rzdspc82.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
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Forwarded message from Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>:

On Tue, Apr 08, 1997 at 02:00:02AM +0200, Ulf Möller wrote:
> > The subject is somewhat misleading.  PGP 2.6.3in is a derivative of
> > PGP 2.6.3i, modified as to comply with the policy of the certification
> > authority run by Individual Network e.V. (IN e.V.).  Specificially, it
> > differentiates between signature and encryption keys, and implements
> > key expiry dates.
> 
> PGP4.5 does both of these things.  I wonder if their modifications are
> compatible with PGP Incs newer version.
> 
> It would be a pity for the versions to get out of sync and cause
> compatibility problems.

If PGP4.5 follows the PGFormat.Doc specifications, there will be no problem
despite ENCR/SIGN, which is not covered by the PGFormat.Doc.