doc/OpenPGP refers to RFC 2440, should refer to RFC 4880
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri Sep 26 21:21:56 CEST 2014
Hi Werner, other GnuPG folks.
doc/OpenPGP says:
See RFC2440 for a description of OpenPGP. We have an annotated version
of this RFC online: http://www.gnupg.org/rfc2440.html
Compatibility Notes
===================
GnuPG (>=1.0.3) is in compliance with RFC2440 despite these exceptions:
...
But the modern reference for OpenPGP (which GnuPG is compatible with) is
RFC 4880. This document should probably be updated to reflect that
situation at least (though i haven't verified all the compatibility
notes, so i'm not sure what else should change).
--dkg
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