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Re: PGP Message Exchange Formats Internet Draft

1997-07-31 01:46:36
Some initial comments on the draft, mostly nits.

- The expanding integer formats used by new-style CTBs and by version-4
  signature subpacket fields should probably be given names and added to
  the catalog of types in section 3. The two formats are slightly
  different; what is the reasoning behind this?

- Section 2.4.1 does not fully describe the CRC used with ascii armor. 

- Section 7 does not mention the possibility of a subkey packet occurring
  in a transferable public key... I assume this is just an oversight.

- The draft does not describe how session keys and hash digests are
  encoded into MPIs for use in public-key algorithms. IMHO this is the
  most glaring omission.

Wim Lewis / wiml(_at_)hhhh(_dot_)org


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