[OTR-dev] Fragmentation

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Thu Dec 18 04:03:49 EST 2014


On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:01:02AM +0100, Hannes Mehnert wrote:
> On 12/17/2014 18:22, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> > Hmm.  That certainly isn't the *intent*.  I don't see in the spec
> > where it allows fragments to be fragmented.  Messages can be
> > fragmented, but fragments aren't messages--they're fragments of
> > messages.
> 
> right.
> 
> > Can you point to where the spec misled you or was unclear?  I'd 
> > certainly like to fix that.
> 
> Re-reading it turns out the spec is pretty clear, and talks about
> 'messages, either fragmented or unfragmented', in the fragmentation
> section about 'fragments'.
> It wouldn't hurt too much to explicitly state 'messages can be
> fragmented, fragments can't - they aren't messages' in the
> fragmentation section.

Done, and pushed to git (devel branch).

Thanks!

   - Ian


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