Machine parseable info like --list-packets

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Tue Aug 12 13:32:02 2003


On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:06:49 -0700, Marc Singer said:

> Is this the message returned when the signature is verified?  I'm

Yes.

> looking for a method that parses the signature packet, only.

That is an OpenPGP internal data structure and should not be parsed by
non OpenPGP applications because it is only of relevance when
processed in certain contexts.  GnuPG is a layer above OpenPGP and
presents the information in a way non-OpenPGP aware applications are
able to understand.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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