At 9:43 AM +0200 9/5/01, Werner Koch wrote:
This is fine with me.
Another question is the format. Should we include only the public
parameters or more stuff in the MDC? A solution I would like to see
is to just hash the fingerprint of the key along with the secret
parameters. I predict that in future, implementations will use the
fingerprint to identify a key (and not just the keyID) and therefore
it is steadily available.
As a couple people noted, I was probably too glib. The byte isn't actually
part of the S2K, it's a marker that says that an S2K follows.
I think that 254 would denote that we have an S2K and a hash. Let's not
call it an MDC, because we're going to get confused if we do. The questions
I see are:
Hash of what?
Is it inside or outside the envelope?
Where is it placed?
Are there any developers that want to come up with a design?
Jon