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Re: Encoding of "features" subpacket

Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> Fri, 24 August 2001 04:23 UTC

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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:08:30 -0700
To: Michael Young <mwy-opgp97@the-youngs.org>, ietf-openpgp@imc.org
From: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
Subject: Re: Encoding of "features" subpacket
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At 11:51 PM -0400 8/23/01, Michael Young wrote:
>At first, I accepted the explanation in the current draft, that this act like
>other "preferences".  But the only preferences encoded that way are
>algorithms lists; but algorithms are already encoded as bytes, and in
>the lists, order matters.  Features feel more like the keyserver or key
>flags, which are bit-encoded.
>

Good point. Anyone else want to weigh in? I'm now leaning to changing it.

	Jon

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