On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:08:38PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > authentication purposes. As a workaround an implementation could use > > notation data but this would be implementation dependend and a kind of > > hack. > > Hmm. Using a flag which is not documented (except in that it exists) seems > kind of a hack, too. If the correct behaviour of openpgp software is to be > left to implementors, why not use a notation - which is more flexible than a > one-bit flag anyway? It doesn't need much documentation. This is similar to the "This key may be used to encrypt communications" or "This key may be used to encrypt storage" flags: a usage hint. I think the proposed flag is a good idea. David
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