On Nov 29, 2009, at 4:51 PM, wavelength wrote: > > Can someone explain why large segments within the ASCII armored key blocks of > Fedora 11 & 12 match? Attached below are the respective key blocks. Two > matching regions between the blocks are highlighted with bold arrows. > > In addition, large segments within the > RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-12-primary key match parts of these same > segments (highlighted in italics - see below). I assume this is normal, but > it's unclear why this would be the case.
It is normal. Keys contain a certain amount of metadata and structure that is the same or similar for many keys. When you convert keys to ASCII armored form, a few lines will thus naturally line up as the same. > Also, what do the last 8 digits signify in the output below? > > rpm -qa gpg-pubkey* > > gpg-pubkey-16ca1a56-4a100959 > gpg-pubkey-57bbccba-4a6f97af It's an rpm timestamp. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
