Re: [openpgp] Pull request for 8-octet lengths
Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Tue, 14 February 2017 08:32 UTC
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Pull request for 8-octet lengths
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Hi Brian, thanks for posting the text. On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 01:59, sandals@crustytoothpaste.net said: > There was some question as to whether we should use four-octet or > eight-octet lengths for signatures (or some other technique), as one > might want to sign more the 2^32 bytes of data. I've submitted a pull > request[0] to use eight-octet lengths for all signatures. Although 64 bit numbers are often not easy to handle on small systems it will be easy for such implementations to hash the required extra bytes (thanks to Big Endian). This is an easy and straightforward change. Unless someone objects, I will add this to the next draft. Salam-Shalom, Werner
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- Re: [openpgp] Pull request for 8-octet lengths Werner Koch
- Re: [openpgp] Pull request for 8-octet lengths Derek Atkins