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Re: MDC, gnupg 1.0.3, and PGP7

2000-10-19 22:33:27
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Michael Young wrote:

Do you still have the examples generated by PGP7 that you used for
interoperability testing?

See Hal's mail.

The MDC packet is not listed due to a bug/implementation issue.


Do you believe the bug is in the generation, or in the parsing?

No, it is due to the way it is implemented.  The MDC check is done
by the decryption fucntion.


I believe that it's in the generation: the compressed data packet uses
an old-style indeterminate length, leading your parser (and mine) to

I am not sure but I thing this is allowed.


   Werner

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