Stefan Claas wrote: > I only wanted to know why such a large image size in the first > place was chosen, when GnuPG suggest a much much smaller > size. :-)
I'd guess that it's not about image size. It's a maximum packet size. Things other than images have to go in there as well (although an image would no doubt usually take up most of the space). It's part of GNU philosophy to not implement unnecessary hard limits in software but one good reason to impose limits is to prevent denial of service conditions. Perhaps a 16MB packet size limit was chosen because it would be more than enough to support keys with a huge number of signatures, and an image, without causing problems for users, and without permitting a denial of service condition. 16MB isn't that much RAM these days. But I am just guessing. I hope it's not to support hi-res iris scans, voice prints and compressed DNA. :-) cheers, raf _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users