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Re: partial packet lengths in PGP 8

2003-04-11 12:51:32

On 11 Apr 2003 11:39:19 -0400, Derek Atkins said:

IIRC signature packets MUST use a determinate length and are limited
to about 8192 bytes (unless this was changed somewhere along the

Right.  I had only the length headers of the subpackets in mind which
indeed would allow up to 2^32 bytes for a subpacket.  However, the
total length of all subpackets is limited to 2 * 2^16 bytes.

Sorry for the confusion,


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   Werner

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