some opencdk history

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Wed Jul 9 18:49:59 CEST 2008


Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> With the patch, GnuTLS can create a gnutls_openpgp_privkey_t from such
> a key.  It won't be able to manipulate the key cleanly for any purpose
> that requires access to the secret MPIs themselves because they are
> locked, but GnuTLS will still be able to do all of the pubkey
> functions with that key.  For example, It should still be possible to
> get the fingerprint of the key without knowing the secret MPIs.

What will happen if someone tries to access the MPIs?






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