On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:19:30 +0100, Weins, Thorsten said:
BTW, is there a reason why they are implementation specific? If somebody
uses
different implementations (e.g. on different platforms) of PGP, he will
OpenPGP defines message and key transport formats but not how an
application stores the key for its own purpose.
The concept of a keyring is PGP specific, other implementations may
use an SQL DB or use a mixed approach, where the trust information is
kept separate from the keys.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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