Internal File Structure

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Mon May 20 14:33:01 2002


On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:25:44AM +0000, Aurelio Turco wrote:
> Is there some way to view or list or deduce
> the internal structure of a GnuPG file
> (eg to find out if it is an encrypted doc or a
> signed doc or a signed encrypted doc etc etc)?

You can get some information, but a encrypted document looks the same
as an encrypted and signed document - all you can see is the encrypted
blob and the session keys.  You can't tell what's inside to tell if it
is signed or not without decrypting the blob.

David

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