Re: [openpgp] Zaheduzzaman Sarker's No Objection on draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-12: (with COMMENT)

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From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
To: Zaheduzzaman Sarker <zahed.sarker.ietf@gmail.com>, The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Zaheduzzaman Sarker's No Objection on draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-12: (with COMMENT)
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On Tue 2023-12-12 03:52:15 -0800, Zaheduzzaman Sarker via Datatracker wrote:
> One comment though, in section 6.2.2 it says -
>
>    Note that some transport methods are sensitive to line length
>
> I believe examples of such "transport methods" would be great here as transport
> methods are not mentioned or explained anywhere else in this specification.

Thanks for the close read, Zaheduzzaman.

This really just means "ways that OpenPGP messages are transmitted over
the network.

Specifically, i think the most relevant OpenPGP transport that is "line
length limited" is SMTP (e.g. for OpenPGP-encrypted e-mail), which
prefers lines < 998 characters.  I'm not sure how useful it is to spell
that out explicitly, but i would have no objection to including a minor
textual clarification in the document if someone were to propose
something reasonable.

        --dkg