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Re: partial packet lengths in PGP 8

2003-04-11 10:47:02

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From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord(_at_)MIT(_dot_)EDU>
IIRC signature packets MUST use a determinate length and are limited
to about 8192 bytes (unless this was changed somewhere along the
line).

The current draft does require that they be determinate, but I don't
see a numeric limit.  There are hard limits to the hashed and unhashed
subpackets (2^16-1 each) and (arguably) practical limits to the size of
the MPIs that form the signature, but that comes to well more than 8192.

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