On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:57 AM, David Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > They should at least fail - a new style RFC-4880 (or 2440) packet (of any > type) is unreadable by an old RFC-1991 program. It simply won't be > meaningful. At to *how* it will fail, that depends on the program. > > The point of the Marker Packet is to force a graceful failure early.
> If there was such a situation, then forcing the use of a new packet header > would certainly break old programs, but this isn't sufficient: most programs > understand new packet headers, but they may not understand your new packet > type. Or put another way - you can't solve that problem with packet > headers. Ok,.. I see :-) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
