Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 2

2009-02-02 Thread Werner Koch
Hi, please move future message threads to the gnupg-devel@ list. Longer technical discussions on gnupg-users@ are not appropriate. Thanks, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnup

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 2

2009-01-29 Thread Peter Thomas
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:19 PM, David Shaw wrote: > build-packet.c:build_sig_subpkt() > sign.c:make_keysig_packet() > sign.c:update_keysig_packet() Thanks :-) I'll have a look at it and come back to you if I should have questions ;-) Peter ___ Gnup

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 2

2009-01-29 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 05:22:01PM +0100, Peter Thomas wrote: > Hi David. > > One more thing on this: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:18 AM, David Shaw wrote: > >> Would gnupg understand these subpackets in a 0x1F signature? > > Yes. It's a valid key as per the spec, even though no program actual

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 2

2009-01-29 Thread Peter Thomas
Hi David. One more thing on this: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:18 AM, David Shaw wrote: >> Would gnupg understand these subpackets in a 0x1F signature? > Yes. It's a valid key as per the spec, even though no program actually > generates such a key that I know of. Note that I can't make that same

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 2

2009-01-27 Thread David Shaw
On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:02 AM, ved...@hush.com wrote: Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:31:39 -0500 From: David Shaw Subject: Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 1 Old programs will basically blow up if they see something they don't understand. There is a special packet, the Marker Packet (t

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 2

2009-01-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:02, ved...@hush.com said: > how does gnupg manage to maintain 16, 32, 64 bit There is and will never be a 16 bit version of GnuPG. Under Windows we currently only support 32 bit. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 2

2009-01-27 Thread vedaal
>Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:31:39 -0500 >From: David Shaw >Subject: Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 1 >Old programs will basically blow up if they see something they >don't >understand. There is a special packet, the Marker Packet (tag 10) >which basically exists to make PGP 2.x prin

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 2

2009-01-26 Thread David Shaw
On Jan 26, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Peter Thomas wrote: It's used for designated revocation signatures. There is no reason why it *couldn't* be used for key expiration or key flags, but 0x13 works just as well for this. OpenPGP supports both 0x1F and 0x13 (0x10, 0x11, 0x12), and historically people u

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 2

2009-01-26 Thread Peter Thomas
Hi David. btw: Thanks for your excellent answers. Great to have one of the RFC authors here :-) On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:28 PM, David Shaw wrote: > It's a "token", that can be given from one person to another. The > token contains only what is stated inside the signature itself. Let's > say

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 2

2009-01-26 Thread David Shaw
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:54:55PM +0100, Peter Thomas wrote: > Hi again. > > This is about signature types and how gnupg uses them. > > I've looked through the signature types in chapter 5.2.1 > > 1) The 0x02 standalone signature: What is its intended use (by the > standard) and is it ever used

Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 2

2009-01-26 Thread Peter Thomas
Hi again. This is about signature types and how gnupg uses them. I've looked through the signature types in chapter 5.2.1 1) The 0x02 standalone signature: What is its intended use (by the standard) and is it ever used by gnupg? I mean it's clear to me that it signs just it's own subpackets, but