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Encoding of "features" subpacket

"Michael Young" <mwy-opgp97@the-youngs.org> Fri, 24 August 2001 04:12 UTC

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From: Michael Young <mwy-opgp97@the-youngs.org>
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Subject: Encoding of "features" subpacket
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:51:01 -0400
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>I am a little bit curious, can you give a rational why the feature
> >> >flags are not bit encoded?
> >
> 
> No. A byte vector seemed like a reasonable thing. I suppose we can do a bit
> vector. Does anyone else have an opinion.

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.

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