Paperkey question

[David Shaw]

On Feb 8, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Ian Hill wrote:
>
> Can you explain the instructions, do you just add the octets to the  
> end
> of the public key.  Is this the same with multiple subkeys.

Yes, and yes.  In OpenPGP, a secret key is just a public key with some  
extra stuff (the secret numbers) tacked on to the end.  That's how  
paperkey makes the keys so small - it can safely leave off all the  
public key information.

David