gcry_sexp_t input forms

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:08:40 -0400 (EDT), nerfherder-43  said:

> (genkey(rsa(nbits 4:1024)))

> what does the '4:' signify and does this value change

This is required by S-expressions syntax.  The length of some data is
indicated by its length, expressed in decimal, followed by a colon and
the actual data.  For data not including certain control characters
and not starting with a digit, the length field can be left out.
Obviously this can't be done if the data itself starts with a digit as
it won't be possible to distinguish it from a length specification.

The above expression can also be written as

 (6:genkey (3:rsa(5:nbits   4:1024)))



Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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