keyflag subpacket and key expiration subpacket

Christoph Anton Mitterer cam at mathematica.scientia.net
Thu Dec 15 02:54:27 CET 2005


Hi.

Everything applies to primary keys only:

Why does gpg store the key flags (subpacket 27) and the key expiration 
time (subpacet 9) in a typ 0x13 selfsignature? Of course the standard 
allows this but wouldn't a 1F-sig be more appropriate?

btw: in keyid.c there's the method usagestr_from_pk() is it a bug that 
only keys that have the S-flag can have a C-flag, too?
If a key would have more than one UID with different key flag subpackets 
(this wouldn't make sense, that's why I asked about the 1F-sig before) 
which one does gpg take?

Best wishes,
Chris

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