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Re: [openpgp] Weird OIDs in the 4880bis draft

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Tue, 14 February 2023 17:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Weird OIDs in the 4880bis draft
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:44, Stephen Farrell said:
> So can someone explain the benefit, other than in making
> the spec tidier in a sense, of making this change?

Well we save 6 bytes:

1.3.6.1.4.1.11591.15.1 -> 2B 06 01 04 01 DA 47 0F 01
1.3.101.112            -> 2B 65 70

however, this is all eaten up by the new covert channel thingy you
introduced.

Anyway, I retract my complain and will prepare GnuPG to accept the two
new shorter OIDs.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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