On Apr 12, 2018 2:30 AM, FuzzyDrawrings via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> 
wrote:
>
> Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
>
> > the first word is `99' which in binary would be 
> > `10011001'. I was expecting to encounter `11000110'.
>
> You were expecting the packet header to be written in the "new" format, but 
> it is actually written in the "old" format (indicated by it beginning with 
> "10" vs "11"). See RFC-4880 section 4.2.

This is what I thought I was seeing, but thought I read somewhere that gpg 
creates version 4 packets.  Thanks.
>
> Public key packets have a Tag ID of 6, and the "new" format isn't required 
> unless the packet has a Tag ID greater than 15. 
>
> -fuzzy
>
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