Re: Signature calculation language

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Wed, 12 October 2005 14:14 UTC

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From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
To: ietf-openpgp@imc.org
Subject: Re: Signature calculation language
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:55:09 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20051012025034.GA5034@jabberwocky.com> (David Shaw's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:50:34 -0400")
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:50:34 -0400, David Shaw said:

> I support making 0x19 backsigs a MUST.

I concur with David.  I am actually a heavy user of signing subkeys
because they allow to keep the primary key offline.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner