Re: partial packet lengths in PGP 8

Werner Koch <wk(_at_)gnupg(_dot_)org> writes:

> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:27:10 -0700, Hal Finney said:
>
> > A literal data packet could have up to a 256 byte long filename plus a
> > few more bytes for the other data, so you need it to be bigger than that.
> > And 512 is the next size up.
> and signature packets can be of any size ...
IIRC signature packets MUST use a determinate length and are limited
to about 8192 bytes (unless this was changed somewhere along the
line).

-derek

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