gpg keyring fileformat?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Apr 13 12:02:50 CEST 2005


On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:33:21 +0200, folkert  said:

> Is there a document describing the gpg keyring fileformat?
> Or is a keyring just a bunch of 'packets' as described on page 12
> and further of http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2440.txt ?

Yes, it is the same format as used for key exchange.  One way to fix
it is by using gpg-split to split the ring up  and then trying to
identify the key causing the corruption. Then remove all packets of
this key and cat everything else together again.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner




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