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Drop sample ASCII-armored message (ZIP-compressed, "for eyes only")

Daniel Kahn Gillmor requested to merge drop-plain-message into main

The sample ASCII-armored message is a ZIP-compressed literal data packet that claims its filename is "_CONSOLE". But ZIP isn't a high priority compression algorithm, and _CONSOLE as a filename (meaning "for eyes only") is explicitly deprecated. Even if it wasn't deprecated, it's deeply weird to say "here is a cleartext message for your eyes only".

It's also unclear in the OpenPGP ecosystem where such a packet sequence would be useful. For example, it's not encrypted, and it's not signed. It's not even well-compressed, since it's got ASCII-armoring added back onto it.

SOP doesn't even have a datatype to be able to consume or generate this packet sequence, no one has asked for it in SOP, and i can't imagine a good argument for adding it.

If anything this particular ASCII-armored message should exist in a bestiary of "things the OpenPGP spec allows you to create but you really probably shouldn't". I really don't think it belongs as the first example of an ASCII-armored message.

By contrast, the rest of the draft contains many useful ASCII-armored OpenPGP test vectors, so i don't think we lose anything with just cutting this one out.

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