Check that s2k-count has changed

Chris Poole lists at chrispoole.com
Fri Jul 8 22:43:18 CEST 2011


Thank you. 

On 8 Jul 2011, at 20:06, Hauke Laging <mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de> wrote:

> Am Freitag, 8. Juli 2011, 20:35:57 schrieb Chris Poole:
>> On 8 Jul 2011, at 17:31, David Shaw <dshaw at jabberwocky.com> wrote:
>>> Yes.  Note that the list-packets output shows the internal packed value:
>>> 6553600 should come out to 201.  The default of 65536 would encode to
>>> 96.
>> 
>> I do indeed get 201. Out of interest, how is that calculated?
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-3.7.1.3
> 
> The count is coded into a one-octet number using the following formula:
> 
>    #define EXPBIAS 6
>    count = ((Int32)16 + (c & 15)) << ((c >> 4) + EXPBIAS);
> 
> The above formula is in C, where "Int32" is a type for a 32-bit
> integer, and the variable "c" is the coded count, Octet 10.
> 
> 
> Hauke
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