Re: packet syntax

Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > thought I read somewhere that gpg creates version 4 packets. True. But the version 4 public-key packet specification only tells you what information will be contained in the packet, not the format used for the packet header. - fuzzy

Re: packet syntax

On Apr 12, 2018 3:39 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > > 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

Re: packet syntax

On Apr 12, 2018 2:30 AM, FuzzyDrawrings via Gnupg-users 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"

Re: packet syntax

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").

Re: packet syntax

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

packet syntax

I'm trying to learn the pgp packet syntax. I created a new key with gpg2 --gen-key and then gpg2 --export > pubkey.key and then gpg2 --dearmor pubkey.key. Which left me with a pubkey.key.gpg file. I then did a hexdump of the file and the first word is `99' which in binary would be `10011