The "hand huffman-coded" structures go all the way back to the origins of
PGP, they're hardly new.
I agree with the sentiment that it would be nice to have a system laid out
with long constants, but I think that that would be a good thing to do in
V2 of the spec. I'd like to get this one done, and then let the working
group debate new formats.
Jon
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