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Re: More (some already reported) spec nits

1998-06-10 12:49:07
At 11:12 AM 6/4/98 -0400, dontspam-tzeruch(_at_)ceddec(_dot_)com wrote:
   1. in 5.6, para beginning with ZIP-compressed, it repeats the phrase "If
   an implementation uses more bits of compression,"
   
   2. In section 14, "PGP 5.0 can read an RSA key in V4 format but will only
   recognize it using V3 format." should say "... V3 keyid." - it recognizes
   either format, but only V3 keyids.
   
   3. "PGP 2.6.x and PGP 5.0 sometimes add to the beginning of a file a
   zero-length ocmpressed data packet." should be removed.  The cause of this
   was a "compressed" block of type store which appeared to be of zero
   length because it was simply a prefix.
   
All of these changes have been made. I adapted Hal's comments into 2. The
wording there is: PGP 5.0 can read an RSA key in V4 format but can only
recognize it with a V3 keyid, and can only properly use a V3 format RSA key.

        Jon


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