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Re: [openpgp] Fingerprints

2015-04-15 08:51:13
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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