V5 signatures

At 11:19 AM -0700 4/23/1999, Anonymous said:

Sorry for dropping this on the floor..

   > (4) A V5 signature packet that allows 4-byte lengths.

   Yet another signature packet version! Is this a scheme to increase
   S/MIME support?

No, it's there for things like PGP ticket. If someone is building a
lightweight authorization scheme, it's conceivable that a signature would
need to be bigger than 8383 bytes. V4 signatures don't allow that.

        Jon