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Re: V3 secret keys

Ian G <iang@systemics.com> Tue, 07 February 2006 11:44 UTC

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Ben Laurie wrote:
> OK, I had to resort to reading the PGP 2 source to find out what was
> going on here.
> 
> In essence its fairly simple, but is _definitely_ no explained by the I-D.


I would agree.  The fantastic PGP chaining mode
is my number one favourite feature to get the axe
just as soon as possible.

Your story has been repeated many times...  I
recall massive arguments about it when we implemented
it in Java originally; for less than 10 lines of code
it generated days of anger as various people argued
this point or that point.

> Obviously the I-D should be updated to reflect this (and clearly no-one
> has ever implemented v3 keys from it).

(I'm not qualified to rewrite the draft on that issue.)

iang

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