On Mar 16, 2015, at 5:15 PM, David Leon Gil <coruus(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Re Jon's comment above: The five-octet, new-format thing is what the
End-to-End extension does.
On Monday, March 16, 2015, Werner Koch <wk(_at_)gnupg(_dot_)org> wrote:
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 19:12, singpolyma(_at_)singpolyma(_dot_)net said:
Yes. Last time I checked, gnupg < 2 (which is still the default on
most of my systems) only generates old-style headers, whereas my
That depends on how you invoke gpg and whether the new packer headers
are required. That is required for PGP-2 compatibility.
Is there an option to completely disable this?
Not in the current code, but you can of course patch it.
Relatedly, is there any option to not use new-format partial lengths?
A partial length is needed to handle content as a stream - say some program
that generates gigabytes of data (like a backup). Something large enough that
you really don't want to have to buffer the whole thing before encrypting it.
Partial lengths are really a nuisance to parse.
No argument there...
David
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