On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 09:00 -0700, Ken Arromdee wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Francesco Poli wrote: > > OK, that said, if you wanted to modify a public key (in order to obtain > > something else), what form would you use for making modifications? > > I think the preferred form would be the one in which the GPG public key > > is distributed by keyservers or some other equivalent form (which may > > be losslessly obtained from the distribution form). > > Wouldn't the preferred form for modification be the number that's used to > generate both the private and public key?
You never want to "modify" those numbers - if there's something wrong with them you generate new ones at random. It seems to me that the only things you might want to modify about the keys are the identities on a public key and the signatures on those, and the preferred form for doing that would presumably be the one that's published. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
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