On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 03:33:25PM +0800, Erron Criddle wrote:
Hal,
At 01:00 AM 25/08/2000 -0700, hal(_at_)finney(_dot_)org wrote:
Erron writes:
PSS: Are public and secret keyrings supposed to interoperate with other
versions of OpenPGP?
No, OpenPGP does not specify keyring formats.
If OpenPGP does not specify keyring formats, then what is:
a) 11.2 related to?
b) A tag 12 Trust packet packet related to (mentions keyrings)?
It is a small but significant difference between key packet and export
format which OpenPGP *does* specify, and whatever internal
representation and storage used by the application for keyrings.
When exporting a key, it must use a specific format and if it wants to
export extra information like trust, there is a way to do that.
For example, I am working on a Palm version, and will need to prepend
indexing information in a private format and limit records to 64k -
the internal format will have packets but they won't be just the
literal key packet.
For larger apps, e.g. keyservers, it makes sense to use a real
database indexed by several query database-keys.