On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 05:29, ed...@pettijohn-web.com said: > did a hexdump of the file and the first word is `99' which in binary > would be `10011001'. I was expecting to encounter `11000110'. I'm
OpenPGP (RFC-4880) has several ways to encode a packet header. This
first byte is called the CTB and reads:
0x10011001
!^^^^##- 0x01 = 2 length bytes follow.
!!------- 0x06 = Public key
!-------- Clear = Old style CTB
0x11000110
!^^^^^^
!!------- 0x06 = Public Key
!-------- Set = New style CTB
For a new style CTB the length bytes are Hufmann like encoded. Bit 7 is
always set. A basic parser can be found in gpgme/src/data-identify.c
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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