Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> writes:
1991 I D. Atkins, W. Stallings, P. Zimmermann, "PGP Message Exchange Formats", 08/16/1996. (Pages=21) (Format=.txt)
Hmm - I don't know I managed to make this post - I had started writing a reply, but exited my mailer, and for some reason it decided to send a cut down version of the unfinished mail anyway ...
Nope. This RFC is merely a rehash of the pgformat.doc file in the PGP 2.6.? distribution. I'm doing an independent implementation of the PGP
There are some parts of pgformat.doc that are not included in RFC1991, especially the packets on the key ring.
2.6 message formats, and found this document unclear in a few spots. For example, can anyone else figure out the weird CFB variant mode from this document? I used a debugger on the PGP code to help me figure it out.
That took quite some time for me to figure out...
Exactly - I spent ages on the same thing. Then there's the problem that packet length headers must be specific lengths for various types (eg. key certificates must have a 2 byte length, even if only one is required).
As far as I remember: CTB_PUBLIC_KEY_CERTIFICATE and CTB_SIGNATURE are always 2 bytes CTB_KEYRING_TRUST and CTB_USER_ID are always 1 byte
information available? I think we need a forum to discuss PGP development issues - I would be happy to set one up if there was interest.
Sounds like a good idea /assar