Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple"

[Stephen Paul Weber <[e-mail]>]

>One of the things that I did once was to streamline an implementation my 
>receiving a number of things well, like old-style packets and lengths, but 
>only generating one thing (like five-byte lengths) on the grounds that if 
>you move to generating a simplified format, you can then start doing usage 
>surveys on when to phase out the old stuff.

Yes.  Last time I checked, gnupg < 2 (which is still the default on most of 
my systems) only generates old-style headers, whereas my implementations 
tend to only generate new-style.  Of course, usually one wants to consume 
both, if creating even a fairly-complete implementation, because of gnupg.

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