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Re: Preparing a new draft...

2001-08-23 10:39:52

Werner Koch <wk(_at_)gnupg(_dot_)org> writes:

GnuPG encodes the <plaintext> using an old-style indeterminate
length packet.  This requires a parser to carve off the

Sure, there is no other way to do this when you don't know the length of
the text in advanced.

You could use new packet lengths to create a stream of packets...

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