GPG and PGP5

Sat Oct 17 19:52:58 CEST 1998

On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 01:23:28PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> brian moore <bem at cmc.net> writes:
> 
> > This seems to make PGP5 happy.
> 
> Yes, it worked. I have fixed it and posted 25 keys to the keyserver,
> expcept for 4 all are now online.

Okay, a bit more playing:

This is from '--list-packets' on a GPG generated signature:

:signature packet: algo 17, keyid 377FCE2488322B51
        version 4, created 908675026, md5len 0, sigclass 00
        digest algo 1, begin of digest 5d 4a
        hashed subpacket 2 of length 5 (signature creation time)
        subpacket 16 of length 9 (issuer key ID)
        data: [158 bits]
        data: [160 bits]
And the signature:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GNUPG v0.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info finger gcrypt at ftp.guug.de

iEYEABEBAAYFAjYpR9IACgkQN3/OJIgyK1FdSgCeIIPLktTAbKdTdjmgohLsF0Qv
3XIAoK908Xn7DPeElLNrAavetaQVzJHh
=8dM6
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

The same from a PGP5 generated sig:

:compressed packet: algo=1
:signature packet: algo 17, keyid DB98F728A52DD52A
        version 3, created 908675125, md5len 5, sigclass 00
        digest algo 2, begin of digest de ae
        data: [159 bits]
        data: [160 bits]
:literal data packet:
        mode b, created 135153312, name="testc",
        raw data: 155 bytes

And the signature itself:

Is something not getting output that should be?  The GPG sig seems awful
short.

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