> On 16 May 2018, at 13:44, Fiedler Roman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I am not sure, if gpg could support implementation/testing/life-cycle-efforts 
> to establish all those parameters and different process models for most of 
> the decryption processes gpg users envision to use gpg for.

Why do we need a plethora of configuration parameters to selectively turn off 
various parts of a security protocol? Why should we even encourage such a 
thing? With security, either everything seems to be ok, or it’s broken in such 
a way that it’s potentially an utter disaster. And quite probably both 
simultaneously. 

The only reasonable use case for selective disabling of security protocol 
features is for backwards compatibility. That doesn’t require fine grained 
control, just a version number. And even then, it opens up the possibility for 
user error. 

I’m going to preemptively quote RJH here before he gets around to it. Use the 
defaults! ;-)

A

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