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Re: AGAIN: "Hash:" either SHOULD be used, or default to MD5

1998-06-03 18:16:22
At 07:16 PM 6/3/98 -0400, dontspam-tzeruch(_at_)ceddec(_dot_)com wrote:
   Is the third or fourth time?
   
   Section 7 states...
   
   Zero or more "Hash:" armor headers.
   
   That should be One or more "Hash:" armor headers, with a note that an
   implementation MAY omit them only for MD5/V3/etc. interoperability.
   
   I had some different substitute text last time, but then there was a
   suggested ammendment.
   
   This really needs to be fixed.  Open PGP implementations should have Hash:
   headers.  Otherwise the default must be MD5 to interoperate with earlier
   implementations.
   
   ____________
   
   On another note, you may want to grep for MAY NOT (in the section for
   partial packet length bytes).  I thing MAY NOT should read SHOULD NOT or
   MUST NOT, and MAY NOT might occur elsewhere.
   
Sorry, I'll take care of those.

        Jon



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