Re: Conventional works, but pgpv needs armor

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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Hal Finney wrote:

> PGP 5.X puts a marker packet at the beginning of any binary message which
> includes new-style packet tag octets (ones with bit 6 set).  This
> causes PGP 2.X to recognize that the message is a PGP message which
> requires a newer version of PGP.  Without the marker packet, PGP 2.X
> thinks it is not a PGP message.
> 
> The binary parser for PGP 5.X also looks for an old-style tag octet at
> the beginning of the message.  This is in pgpFileTypePGP in the
> pgpFileType.c module.
> 
> In order for PGP 5.X to recognize that a binary message which uses
> new-format tags is a PGP message, you should put a marker packet at
> the front.  That's why it is not reading the SKESK example properly.

So, that is what the 0xa8 0x03 'P' 'G' 'P' is for?  I shut it off for
conventionals.
(line 157 of pgp5cryp.c)

Oh well, version 0.91e tomorrow...

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