At 7:02 AM +1300 11/9/01, Peter Gutmann wrote:
Urgh, I hope no-one interprets it that way. The partial-length encoding is
incredibly painful to use with its silly power-of-two restriction (you can't
just say "This is what I've got so far, the next lot starts here" but have to
chop it up into little power-of-two length pieces just to fit the *&#^$&#*
length-encoding mechanism). GPG uses the definite-length format where it can
and 0xA3 where it can't (compressed data), something I agree with
wholeheartedly.
What I'm mainly concerned with as far as interoperability on this
point is whether implementations support segmented packets, and the
interpretation of of the data is consistent across implementations.
--
john noerenberg
jwn2(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com
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