On Mon, 9 May 2022 12:28, Paul Schaub said:
Could you by the way elaborate on the reasons why you think it is not
possible to just omit the secret key packet? Clearly the specification
Because a secret key packet has different properties than a public key
packet. Even if the real secret information has been stripped there is
still tye information that it is a secret key packet.
Parser stuff is not an issue and it is easy to use just one parser.
is_secret = tag_is_for_secret_sub_key();
parse_public
if is_secret
parse_secret_parts.
We have even taken care in rfc4880 to make it easy to parse keys with
unknown algorithms (depending on the protection mechanism due to
backward compatibility).
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
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