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In <19980909143835(_dot_)B29875(_at_)sobolev(_dot_)rhein(_dot_)de>, on 09/09/98
at 02:38 PM, Thomas Roessler <roessler(_at_)guug(_dot_)de> said:
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 09:11:44AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
Suggestion for the future: Include some magic bytes to
packets in the experimental range, so you can decide
whether it is your experiment or not; same goes for the
experimental subkey types.
Actually, one may wish to formalize a procedure for such
private extensions. The secsh (ssh) internet-drafts have
a nice mechanism for this: They are using textual values
for about all algorithm IDs, etc. Experimental or local
IDs always have the form <local id>@domain, where domain
is a DNS domain under the control of the entity which
creates the experimental ID. For OpenPGP, one could think
of an "experimental" packet ID which _must_ be followed by
a string constant containing a local packet ID like the
one I just described. The rest of the packet will then
conform to whatever the extension wants.
I don't know if I really like this as it complicates the packet processing
and is also not compatable with previous versions.
What we could do is make use of the marker packet to id experimental
packets.
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