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Re: Comments on draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc2440bis-12

2005-01-16 01:03:55

David Shaw wrote:
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 04:38:32PM -0500, David Shaw wrote:

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:54:51PM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:

3.2 (MPI) doesn't specify what the unused bits should be set to. This may be deliberate but I think it should either say they MUST be zero (which I prefer) or that their content is unspecified.

I'm not completely sure what you are referring to here.  Do you mean
the difference (given an MPI of value "1") between [00 01 01] and [00
01 02] ?  The 0x02 bit of the 3rd octet?


Er, I meant [00 01 03], but the question still holds.  Are you
referring to the 0x02 bit of the last octet?

Yes.

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