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Re: New packets in PGP 6.0

1998-09-09 08:45:41
"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii(_at_)invweb(_dot_)net> writes:

So lets say we have packet type 20 -- Generic ID. Then in the type field:

10 -- PhotoID
15 -- Fingerprint
30 -- Retinal Scan

Please do not continue with numeric ids; use strings (like ssh v2) to
avoid all these number assignment problems.  Numbers can still be
assigned but a registration should not be required.  Compared to a
size of Photo, the additionl bytes of a string don't count.

And this does _not_ make the processing more complicated.


Werner


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