packet type 18 and 19

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Mon Apr 2 08:43:12 2001


On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Ingo Luetkebohle wrote:


> GnuPG's g10/packet.h defines packet types 18 and 19 to apparently the
> same thing as types 15 and 16, respectively, in RFC 2440bis. What is
> the reasoning behind that? Is the packet internal format the same as
> the one described for 15 and 16 in 2440bis?
It seems that there is an error in draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc2440bis-02.txt. IIRC, PGP suggested the use of 15 and 16 but we later decided to use 18 and 19. Becuase Hal and I did some tests on the new MDC format, I am pretty sure that we use 18 + 19. Jon, can you please correct this.
> P.S. type 15 is not used at all in GnuPG, it seems, but type 16 is
> defined as "old comment" -- why?
I can't remember right now, but there was a reason that we don't use them. 16 was used in an early draft to denote a comment packet. Werner -- Werner Koch Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur g10 Code et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Privacy Solutions -- Augustinus