On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:52:48PM -0600, Kevin Hilton wrote: > Thanks for this release. Reading the explanation on the website: > http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ got me thinking. Is > there an explanation or description of all the metadata that is > contained within the secret key?
Yes. See RFC 4880, sections 5.5.3 and 11.2. What makes paperkey possible is that in OpenPGP, a secret key is actually the same thing as a public key with a few extra fields tacked on (the ones specified in 5.5.3). Another nice side effect of this is that you can transform any secret key into a public key. In fact, GPG will do this for you - try importing a secret key that you don't already have a public key for. GPG will import the secret key, and then create a public key for it automatically. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
