Gnupg compression

2012-02-09 Thread Thomas Martin
Hello all, I've been playing around with encrypted files, trying to decrypt them independently. I've used Maple to decrypt the RSA, and openssl to decrypt the AES, sha1sum to verify the hashes, but I'm having problems with the compressed files. I (perhaps naively) thought that once I'd undone the

Gnupg file formats

2011-12-01 Thread Thomas Martin
Hello all, I'm interested in learning more about how cryptography is applied, and I'm trying to understand the file formats used by Gnupg. The RFC4880 has been a great help. In looking at an private key I can find the MPI's for the public and private parameters. In looking at a ciphertext, I can f