In <20000523121635R(_dot_)1001(_at_)eccosys(_dot_)com>, on 05/22/00
at 09:16 PM, sen_ml(_at_)eccosys(_dot_)com said:
This is an area of ambiguity we have run into. Can you put multiple
literal data packets into compressed or encrypted data? Can they be
inside/after signature packets?
My feeling is that it should be allowed. Literal packets can have file
names associated with them and so this would be an efficient mechanism
for transferring multiple files. I don't know what the current
implementations do.
i wonder about how well this would work w/ mime. for mail situations, i
wonder whether it wouldn't be simpler and easier for users and
implementors to either tar or zip up multiple files as a single file or
to attach multiple files.
for situations where the data is being processed directly by an openpgp
implementation, processing multiple contiguous literal data packets seems
fine...but openpgp and zip seem to be merging :-)
I always make it a practice to zip even individual files *before*
encryption and sending. Zip seems better at dealing with file system
issues better than PGP is (CRLF<->LF conversions, preserving EA's,
...ect).
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