Image in Key

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:37:28 +0200


On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, sandra@fsg-ship.de wrote:

> I received a key from a friend of mine, that containes a part called
> "[image of size 4043]". 

That is the Photo-ID aka Biometric-ID, the format has not yet been
disclosed, so gnupg displays only what it knows about it.  If you play
a littyle bit with it you can extract the image; it is fairly
straight forward encoded.
 
The Photo-ID behaves just like the User-ID.

  Werner

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