Compatibility

[L. Sassaman]

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On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> 
> > about 5.x violations. Show me 6.0 non-compliance issues, other than the
> > photo-id packet. Please. (And by the way, OpenPGP *is* an emulation of PGP
> > Inc.'s product. ;) )
> 
> There used to be a signature subpacket with some X.509 data, the
> subpacket number was not in the private/experimenatl range and not
> specified by OpenPGP.

This is an X.509 certificate:

:signature packet: algo 100, keyid 0000000000000000
        version 4, created 952495317, md5len 0, sigclass 10
        digest algo 2, begin of digest 00 00
        hashed subpkt 2 len 5 (sig created 2000-03-08)
        hashed subpkt 3 len 5 (sig expires after 10y0d0h0m)
        hashed subpkt 100 len 995 (?)
        unknown algorithm 100


I don't know about previous versions, but in 6.5.3 it is subpacket number
100 (internal or user defined).

I personally think it would be nice for X.509 certificates to get a
dedicated packet number, but in any case the current method is in
compliance with OpenPGP.


- --Len.

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L. Sassaman

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