Perhaps it's my flakey memory, but I recall that when Colin and
I were working on PGP3/5, when we were designing what eventually
turned into 2440, we had some packets that required a 2-bit LoL
implementation due to compatibility reasons with PGP 2.x... I
could be totally off my rocker, here -- this work was done 8 years
ago so it's been a while and I've tried to forget that part of my
life ;)
-derek
"Michael Young" <mwy-opgp97(_at_)the-youngs(_dot_)org> writes:
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.
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
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