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Re: partial packet lengths in PGP 8

2003-04-11 01:26:36

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:27:10 -0700, Hal Finney said:

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.

and signature packets can be of any size ...


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