On Feb 8, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Ian Hill wrote:

Can you explain the instructions, do you just add the octets to the end
of the public key.  Is this the same with multiple subkeys.

Yes, and yes. In OpenPGP, a secret key is just a public key with some extra stuff (the secret numbers) tacked on to the end. That's how paperkey makes the keys so small - it can safely leave off all the public key information.

David


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