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Re: Proposal for new Attribute packet

1998-03-10 07:06:44
In 
<199803100125(_dot_)RAA01053(_at_)s20(_dot_)term1(_dot_)sb(_dot_)rain(_dot_)org>,
 on 03/09/98 
   at 08:25 PM, Hal Finney <hal(_at_)rain(_dot_)org> said:

This is a proposal for a new packet type, the "attribute packet," which
is a generalization of the userid packet.  Attribute packets can appear
in a PGP key structure anywhere a userid packet could appear.

While this is an intresting proposal I have some concerns over keysize.

Current public databases are over 100Mb now and are growing at an ever
increasing rate. I shudder to think what the size will grow to when BLOB's
are added to the keys. Do we really want PGP keysize to grow into the Mb
range?

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