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On 03/05/2013 12:04 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> I would like to suggest that we change XEP-0027 from Active to 
> Deprecated (and then Obsolete). The technology is no longer in
> wide use, and it has so many problems that I don't think we want
> to actively suggest that people implement it.
> 

+1 for being proactive at clearing out older (and unwise) info


> Peter
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [cryptography] Is
> it just me or is this fundamentally broken? Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013
> 18:24:46 -0700 From: Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> To:
> Peter Gutmann <[email protected]> CC:
> [email protected]
> 
> On 3/4/13 4:42 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>> Quoting http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0027.html#signing:
> 
>> Signing enables a sender to verify that they sent a certain block
>>  of text. [...] The text that is signed MAY be the empty string.
> 
>> (There's no metadata or anything there, just a raw signature).
> 
> No one uses XEP-0027 these days, they all use OTR. The PGP
> integration with XMPP clients was an early experiment in the Jabber
> community before we even called it XMPP. Think 13+ years ago. But
> clients never signed empty strings, although we never fixed the
> spec because no one was using the technology. I'll push to make the
> spec Obsolete.
> 
> Peter
> 
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> 

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