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Re: Signature calculation language

Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> Tue, 18 April 2006 21:26 UTC

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From: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
Subject: Re: Signature calculation language
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:09:42 -0700
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On 12 Oct 2005, at 6:55 AM, Werner Koch wrote:

>
> 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.
>

I also added an implementation nit:

    The 0x19 back signatures were not required for signing subkeys  
until relatively
    recently. Consquently, there may be keys in the wild that do not  
have these back
    signatures. Implementing software may handle these keys as it  
sees fit.

	Jon

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