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 -- Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013 OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0 Birkenstr. 12 email wk@OpenIT.de D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.OpenIT.de