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Re: How to handle photoID on keyserver? (Re: photo support?)

2002-07-02 06:56:43

On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 12:58:35AM -0400, Michael Young wrote:

PGP doesn't use images anywhere near this size.  David Shaw
suggested that GnuPG will accept any size image, but even so,
I doubt that many people will attach such a large image
to their key.  [I might suggest that GnuPG refuse large
images by default, perhaps overridden with its "-expert" flag.]

GnuPG does something similar to this - any image over 6k is refused
unless the user confirms it.  (i.e. "This image is really large!  Are
you sure you want to use it?" and the default is "no")

David

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