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Encoding of "features" subpacket

2001-08-23 20:52:54

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I am a little bit curious, can you give a rational why the feature
flags are not bit encoded?


No. A byte vector seemed like a reasonable thing. I suppose we can do a bit
vector. Does anyone else have an opinion.

At first, I accepted the explanation in the current draft, that this act like
other "preferences".  But the only preferences encoded that way are
algorithms lists; but algorithms are already encoded as bytes, and in
the lists, order matters.  Features feel more like the keyserver or key
flags, which are bit-encoded.

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