On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Jon Callas wrote:
At 12:32 AM 4/22/98 -0400, dontspam-tzeruch(_at_)ceddec(_dot_)com wrote:
1. I didn't read over the draft carefully and I don't have it in front of
me. Does it say that the new 5 octet 0xff packet-length MUST be the only
packet length (i.e. not at the end of partial-lengths)?
No, it doesn't.
Back to the code - I generally interpret this as an error, but it is easy
to fix (introducing another if-then-else case everyhwere).
Incidentally, I was talking to PhilZ, who has expressed a desire to have
partial lengths deprecated.
Only deprecated for the cases I mentioned (and are fixed in the spec),
i.e. small blocks, headers, etc. or for everything? They can be useful if
you wanted to use PGP in a stream to do something like SSL does.
They can also be deprecated for compression without much of a problem.
Maybe even Symmetrically encrypted packets (with a "look-for-eof" like
compression) since they end when they end.
Literals have problems since you have to find the signature(s) at the end.
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