On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:33:59PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 09:58:35AM -0400, Paul Taukatch wrote: > > Really appreciate the help and the quick response! > > > > I just wanted to clarify, where exactly is the public key information > > stored within the exported secret key data? Is it part of the Secret key > > packet as part of the "Encrypted stuff follows section" or is following > > that? > > It's part of the secret key packet. If you run gpg --list-packets with > --debug=2 (or with --debug-all), so that it shows you the actual numeric > data in the key representations, you'll see that skey[0] and skey[1] in > the secret key packet are exactly the same as pkey[0] and pkey[1] shown > when you --export | --list-packets (so GnuPG shows you the public key).
Also, if you're really writing software for parsing and extracting data from OpenPGP keys or messages, then you absolutely *must* start by reading RFC 4880, then reading it again, then bookmarking it and keeping it always open in a browser window or a text pager, so you can refer to it as often as you *will* need to :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org p.penc...@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 I am the thought you are now thinking.
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