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Re: [openpgp] Backwards compatibility vs streaming verification of v6 clearsigned messages

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> Tue, 30 May 2023 04:32 UTC

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From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
To: Justus Winter <justus@sequoia-pgp.org>, Vincent Breitmoser <look=40my.amazin.horse@dmarc.ietf.org>, openpgp@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Backwards compatibility vs streaming verification of v6 clearsigned messages
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On Sat 2023-05-27 08:52:46 +0200, Justus Winter wrote:
> We talked about this at the OpenPGP email summit, and we agreed that
> this is a good solution.  I have created a merge request where we can
> fine-tune the change:
>
> https://gitlab.com/openpgp-wg/rfc4880bis/-/merge_requests/313

Thanks for this, Justus.  And thanks Paul for merging it.

I've opened
https://gitlab.com/openpgp-wg/rfc4880bis/-/merge_requests/314 with a bit
more explicit clarification about what we've discussed here.  In
particular, the additional cleanup explicitly:

 - points out the Hash: is effectively deprecated

 - discourages emitting the Hash: header unless the CSF message contains
   a SHA2 digest with a v4 signature

 - mandates ignoring the Hash: when verifying a CSF message

 - removes the SaltedHash: header from the example CSF test vector

 - explains why the CSF format isn't a good format for very large
   messages

I think these changes show the rationale for these changes more clearly.

Please review!

   --dkg

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