For some reason, it takes very long for these messages to get to the
list. Moderator asleep ?-)
Markus Friedl writes:
: And again: I would strongly favour the removal of the
: redundant length fields from the drafts since:
: 1) They are not usefull at all. Why should n bytes of data
: be encoded as:
: uint32 n+4
: uint32 n
: n bytes data
: 2) There is no public implementation of the drafts that includes
: the redundant length field so
: 3) Requiring the length field breaks all public implementations
: of the drafts. This would hurt the acceptance of SSH2 much,
: since it adds yet another layer of incompatibility.
I wholeheartedly agree.
I will remove those unnecessary fields from the draft, and fix our
current implementation (which will be 2.2.0 when it is released) to
comply with these changes.
Regards,
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