default keyring file formats

[David Shaw]

On Feb 19, 2013, at 9:27 PM, John A. Wallace <jw72253 at verizon.net> wrote:

> A lot of the documentation I see online includes references to files with names like “foo.pub” or “foo.sec” as if these were public key rings and secret key rings. However, I am accustomed to seeing keyrings like “pubring.gpg” and “secring.gpg”. Were the former of these used as keyring files in the past, but nowadays the latter format are used?

Keyrings of that type are just files with multiple keys concatenated together.  The format is effectively the same no matter what the filename is.

I've often seen foo.pub / foo.sec as a single key (while the pubring.gpg, pubring.pgp, or pubring.pkr) is the keyring, but that's just convention.

David