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Features subpacket AEAD flag should specify version 1

Daniel Kahn Gillmor requested to merge clarify-aead-feature into main

The AEAD packet has a version number. Only version 1 is defined.

If version 2 is ever defined, it's not clear how an implementation will signal that it supports the new version.

By making the feature flag describe the specific AEAD version supported, we leave room to use an additional bit for each new version.

We could probably retcon this whenever AEAD v2 gets defined, but it seems safer to do it explicitly.

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