unknown critical bit

Dominik Schuermann dominik at dominikschuermann.de
Mon May 8 08:43:11 CEST 2017


To keep the information flow between the projects: This has been fixed
in OpenKeychain v4.3.

Ref:
https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain/commit/005f93a4f30a9505093271554a8e7ab79011ace0

Thanks again for pointing this out.

Cheers
Dominik

On 04/06/2017 07:32 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Gnupg-devel mailing list
> Gnupg-devel at gnupg.org
> http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-devel
> 

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 473 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: </pipermail/attachments/20170508/5f0103f1/attachment.sig>


More information about the Gnupg-devel mailing list