Photo UIDs on --attribute-fd on Windows and strange LF->CRLF conversions

[Adam Schreiber]

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David Shaw wrote:
>>When trying to find the original image from the new.dat file, it seems
>>that  every 0x0a byte (line feed) inside the image is mangled to a 0x0d
>>0x0a. The length mentioned in the "ATTRIBUTES" line mentiones the
>>decoded length. So decoding is a bit tricky, especially since when you
>>read a 0x0d as last byte, you do not know whether to stop (i. e. it was
>>a 0x0d byte) or not (if a 0x0a byte follows, it has been a 0x0a byte).
> 
> 
> The problem here is twofold - first, you can't dump jpegs that way.
> You'll end up with garbage because it'll be mixed up with the key
> listings themselves.  The second problem is related to the first -
> you're dumping to stdout, and stdout on windows does textmode
> conversion by default.

I've been working on Photo ID support for seahorse.  We decided to
attack the problem by using a helper program to output a jpg to a known
location.  Since gpg uses xloadimage on UNIX systems to display the
photo ids, we created a program that dumps the intended output for
xloadimage to a file specified by an environment variable.  We're using
gpgme_op_edit to trigger the output, but you could do a similar thing
with the command:

gpg --edit-key <keyid> uid <uid> showphoto quit

The helper program can be found in cvs at
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/seahorse/src/seahorse-xloadimage.c

The other glue can be found in the latest patch attached to GNOME
bugzilla bug #160413
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160413

Specifically look at the changes in src/seahorse-key-op.c for the gpgme
handling.

Adam Schreiber

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