Question about MDC Packets
Len Sassaman <rabbi@quickie.net> Mon, 22 July 2002 19:22 UTC
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From: Len Sassaman <rabbi@quickie.net>
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Subject: Question about MDC Packets
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In RFC 2440-bis5:5.13, it says: There is a corresponding feature in the features signature subpacket that denotes that an implementation can properly use this packet type. An implementation SHOULD NOT use this packet when encrypting to a recipient that does not state it can use this packet, and SHOULD prefer this to older Symmetrically Encrypted Data Packet when possible. This doesn't, however, give any indication of what to do when using pure symmetric encryption. What is the preferred behavior when symmetrically encrypting a file using AES? Should an OpenPGP implementation use the MDC by default? --Len.
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