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Re: Length specifiers

1998-07-27 15:04:18
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 on 07/27/98 
   at 03:55 PM, Jon Callas <jon(_at_)pgp(_dot_)com> said:

At 06:06 PM 7/23/98 +0100, Ian Brown wrote:
  One tiny change needed in section 4.2.2.4?
  
  "Another length header (of one of the three types -- one octet,
two-octet, or partial) follows that portion."
  
  Should this be:
  
  "Another length header (of one of the four types -- one octet,
two-octet, five-octet or partial) follows that portion."
  
That one's intentional. The relevant developers wanted to exclude the
5-octet lengths there.

Any particular reason why?

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