Re: partial packet lengths in PGP 8

Brian Smith writes:
> 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.
A literal data packet could have up to a 256 byte long filename plus a
few more bytes for the other data, so you need it to be bigger than that.
And 512 is the next size up.

Hal