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Re: partial packet lengths in PGP 8

2003-04-10 16:06:26


What's the reason for requiring that the first partial length be so long?
 512 octets is considerably more than the headers, IV, etc of any data
packet would be.

Brian

On Wed, 09 Apr 2003 15:45:44 -0700 Jon Callas <jon(_at_)callas(_dot_)org> wrote:

On 4/9/03 3:02 PM, "Hal Finney" <hal(_at_)finney(_dot_)org> wrote:

I suggest that the following text:

 An implementation MAY use Partial Body Lengths for data packets,
be
 they literal, compressed, or encrypted. The first partial length
MUST
 be at least 512 octets long. Partial Body Lengths MUST NOT be
used
 for any other packet types.

 Note also that the last Body Length header can be a zero-length
header.

be moved from 4.2.3 to section 4.2.2.4, Partial Body Lengths.
Also I
moved the "Note also" sentence to after the paragraph as you see.

I moved them.

   Jon