Re: Parser abilities, and MDCs (Re: pointers toopenpgp-interopknowledge base?)

[John W Noerenberg II <jwn2@qualcomm.com>]

At 7:02 AM +1300 11/9/01, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>Urgh, I hope no-one interprets it that way.  The partial-length encoding is
>incredibly painful to use with its silly power-of-two restriction (you can't
>just say "This is what I've got so far, the next lot starts here" but have to
>chop it up into little power-of-two length pieces just to fit the *&#^$&#*
>length-encoding mechanism).  GPG uses the definite-length format where it can
>and 0xA3 where it can't (compressed data), something I agree with
>wholeheartedly.

What I'm mainly concerned with as far as interoperability on this 
point is whether implementations support segmented packets, and the 
interpretation of of the data is consistent across implementations.
-- 

john noerenberg
jwn2@qualcomm.com
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