Re: draft editor(s)

[lutz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* William Allen Simpson wrote:
>I recommend any of Callas and Thayer's useful work be incorporated in
>the new document, and that they be given second and third author credit,
>but that all editting be done by Lutz.  No diffusion of responsibility.
>Them that does the work gets the credit.

Thank you. I'll do my best. In any case some of my current tasks ge be
lifted soon. So I have more time. Next issue is to reimplement it as (L)GPL
reference implementation (that's what I'm paid for) and test it against
existing messages.

BTW some changes:

ftp://ftp.iks-jena.de/pub/mitarb/lutz/crypt/software/pgp/
                                    draft-ietf-pgp-formats.current.txt

23.10.1997
  * Armor header bug fixed.

22.10.1997
  * Clarification of sel-certificates.
  * Key expiration changed user ID expiration.
  * Key usage clarification.
  * Digests written as words.
  * MAY, SHOULD, MUST classification for every item.

21.10.1997
  * Fingerprint derivated from public key format.
  * Major extentions to signature subpackets (several new types).
  * Signature subpacket derivated from general packet framework.
  * Consequently use octet instead of byte.
  * Secret key is derivated from public key.
  * Added algorith identifiers 2 (RSA encr) and 3 (RSA sign).
  * Backward compatibility derivated from packet version of public key.
  * Started different trust models used by PGP 5.x. New trust packet.

21.10.1997
  * Corrections on Ascii Armor.
  * Armor header 'Version' defined to current use.

19.10.1997
  * published fist version of the draft completely rewritten from fragments.