At 06:58 AM 2/19/98 GMT, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
This modification was not discussed and is not yet implemented in the
refernce implementation. I doubt it to be useful. Subkeys can use packet
version four and must not destroy existing standards in use.
I beg your pardon? I'm staring at the standard and it says in section 4.2:
PGP 2.6.X only uses old format packets. Thus, software that
interoperates with those versions of PGP must only use old format
packets. If interoperability is not an issue, either format may be
used.
Section 4.3 says:
The packet tag denotes what type of packet the body holds. Note that
old format packets can only have tags less than 16, whereas new format
packets can have tags as great as 63. The defined tags (in decimal)
are:
What do I need to add to make this more clear? It would certainly be a pity
if your reference implementation did not comply to the spec.
Jon
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