unknown critical bit

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Apr 6 18:32:05 CEST 2017


On Thu,  6 Apr 2017 16:11, look at my.amazin.horse said:

> A related question came up when we looked at our implementation: We set
> the reason as NO_REASON, with an empty string. Dominik says he
> included

GnuPG does the same for the revocation certs created with the key.  In
interactive mode the user is asked for a reason and an optional
description.

> the packet for compatibility reasons, but we can't remember the
> specifics at this point.

To support v3 keys.

> We could now either set the flag to false, or drop the subpacket
> altogether. I have no strong preference, would probably just drop the
> critical bit to change as little as necessary. Any thoughts?

That would certainly be helpful.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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