Subkey Binding Signature(0x18)

Atom 'Smasher' atom-gpg at suspicious.org
Mon May 10 19:09:04 CEST 2004


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responding to self...

perhaps the word "recover" in the context of crypto makes this sound
impossible.... i should ask how a subkey binding signature can be
_recalculated_.


On Mon, 10 May 2004, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:

> if a subkey binding signature gets lost or destroyed, how can it be
> recovered? (or made from scratch?) (let's assume that it's lost for both
> the public and private key.)
>
> are there things that can be done on the command line? or would one have
> to use a calculator and hex editor?
>
> can gpg be "tricked" into generating that packet? it seems to only
> generate it when new (sub)keys are created.
>
> i've been reading RFC 2440, and trying to figure out how to generate that
> packet manually... i'm not getting too far.


	...atom

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