Reading PGP key information

Posted by calccrypto on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by calccrypto
Published on 2010-05-08T16:39:36Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 16:48 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 223

Filed under:
|
|

can someone show a description of the information of what a pgp looks like if only the descriptions were there but not the actual information? something like (i dont remember if the values are correct):

packet-type[4 bits], total length in bytes[16 bits], packet version type [4 bits], creation-time[32 bits], encryption-algorithm[8 bits], ...,etc,etc

ive tried to understand rfc4880, but its tedious and confusing. so far, i am think i have extracted the 4 i wrote above, but i cant seem to get the rest of the information out.

can anyone help? i know i can just find some pgp program, but the whole point of this is to allow me to learn how those programs work in the first place

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about openpgp

Related posts about publickey