My guess would be "Allows you to at least partially recover corrupted encrypted emails". One of the most common fears against encryption that I encounter is "if something happens, I loose all my data and won't be able to restore the plaintext fragments that are left".
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Maybe a flag to override an error in this case, instead of a broken default behaviour?
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Werner wrote that they went with a soft fail because of buggy implementations being slow to implement MDC back in the day. One might consider making it a hard fail.
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"Back in the day". That is exactly the point. It would have been ok to increase the pressure at some time since then.
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Reads to me as if that was a backwards compatibility thing back in the day, and it unfortunately didn't get hardened as time went on. I agree that that should have been done. And also that the problem was otherwise far too hyped
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Sums it up quite nicely.
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