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List:       gnupg-devel
Subject:    FYI: comment packets
From:       Werner Koch <wk () isil ! d ! shuttle ! de>
Date:       1998-05-03 15:58:50
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Jon Callas <jon@pgp.com> writes:

> The comment packet is gone at the area director's request. The uses you
> give for it are good ones, but other protocols with similar features have
> also had them removed. However, if you want to carry meta-data in a
> pipeline, there's no reason why you can't use packets 60-63 for this. They
> are specifically reserved for private or experimental use. 

Okay I changed it:  GNUPG now puts comments into a packet of type 61.
Comment packets of type 16 are still recognized. The first character
of all GNUPG generated comments is a ´#´.


Werner

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