Length of public key

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On 10-Jul-2002/00:17 +0100, Daniel Rees <dan@dwrees.co.uk> wrote:
>I have uploaded my key to the wwwkeys.gpg.net keyserver, and have tested
>sending and recieving it. After doing so however, I noticed that if I
>export my public key using gpg in armor mode, the gpg public key is
>about twice the length of the public key listed on the key server. Is
>this normal?

Yes.

The key size reported by OpenPGP does not include signatures or extraneous
data like the optional photograph. Also, armor increases the size of the
data.

Tony
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