[jgg@ualberta.ca: Creating things PGP 2 will read]

[Werner Koch]

Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:

> I'm confused, why would you need any sort of variable/partial length
> mechansim when generating an ascii armoured signature? Don't you suck the
> whole text in and then compute the digest on the fly?

My box has ony 64 megs and I think there are messages which are much
larger :-)  Being compatible to PGP2 is not a goal for GnuPG.  I do as
much as I can but only up to a level where it does not break the
design of a good Unix program.


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