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Re: V5 key packet format requirements

Edwin Woudt <edwin@woudt.nl> Fri, 03 February 2006 16:12 UTC

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Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:58:34 +0100
From: Edwin Woudt <edwin@woudt.nl>
To: "Daniel A. Nagy" <nagydani@epointsystem.org>
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Subject: Re: V5 key packet format requirements
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>> IMHO, things that have nothing to do with the user ID should not be in a
>> self-signature, but in a direct key signature (type 0x1F) instead.
>
> But I agree
> that signatures on keys are less popular with implementations than they
> should be. OTOH, this is not directly related to the key packet format.

The introduction of V5 would be a good moment to remedy this situation.

-- 
Edwin

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