Re: [openpgp] Fingerprints

Somebody claiming to be Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:23, phill(_at_)hallambaker(_dot_)com said:
>
> > There is no need to have an algorithm field, a version field is
> > sufficient because we should only be using one algorithm at a given
> Right.  However an algorithm field is as good as a version field because
> they have the same purpose in this context.  An algorithm field saves us
> a mapping to the actual algorithm.  Recall that OpenPGP uses an
> one-octet indentifier and not an OID.
And it could save specifying versions somewhere seperately from the 
algorithm identifiers that already exist.

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