Armor key - X.501

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Wed Dec 8 15:32:55 CET 2010


On Dec 8, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote:

> Hi,
>           What is the standard that the GPG armor key is compliant with ?  X.501 ?

RFC-4880 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880).  See section 6 in particular for how the armor is formed, and sections 4 and 11 for what goes into the armor.

David




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