On Apr 9, 2012 8:57 PM, John Clizbe j...@enigmail.net wrote:
John Gill wrote:
I know that gpg chooses common algos between the sender and recipient.
(I've not tested what will happen with recipients who have no
preferences in common with my enabled algos, but that's a problem for a
new
On Apr 6, 2012 12:15 PM, Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org wrote:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:32, john.g...@computer.org said:
I am feeding the output of a list-packets for my keying into an awk
script
to build a report on the keys and the preferences for each key.
You wrongly assume that signatures
I am, of course, not Werner, but let's see if I can't take a stab at it.
All --list-packets does is take the input, in a human-unreadable format,
and transform it into a human-readable format. It performs none of the
computationally expensive mathematics that are required to validate the
I'm assuming the the signatures indicate, roughly the set of options that
my recipients will not receive an error about ignored preferences. For
instance, symmetric algo 9 has been around for the last 10 years at least.
but if I force it on someone who doesn't have it as a preference, the
, David Shaw ds...@jabberwocky.com wrote:
On Apr 9, 2012, at 10:52 AM, John Gill wrote:
I'm assuming the the signatures indicate, roughly the set of options
that my recipients will not receive an error about ignored preferences.
For instance, symmetric algo 9 has been around for the last 10
let me know.
Thank you,
John Gill
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Please point me to a detailed explanation for the output of list-packets.
I have googled and read manuals, etc. but just can't seem to locate the
knowledge.
John
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Why not set up a fixed size start/run record identifier. No need for a
magic and unique sequence.
Like this:
Field description start lengthdatatype
1 GPG stream start 1 2 Alpha
2 stream length
