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| author | Werner Koch <[email protected]> | 2003-08-23 07:50:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Werner Koch <[email protected]> | 2003-08-23 07:50:54 +0000 |
| commit | fd4be49da86daef3ca943639ff122985e6cdb447 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e8a6e0eb7d339fc66b59dac4e74d1e0e9b06b14 | |
| parent | Post release version number bump. (diff) | |
| download | gnupg-fd4be49da86daef3ca943639ff122985e6cdb447.tar.gz gnupg-fd4be49da86daef3ca943639ff122985e6cdb447.zip | |
* DETAILS: Removed paragraph on gdbm usage. Notes that pipemode
is deprecated.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/DETAILS | 26 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 9e18aef1b..9a36631f5 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2003-08-23 Werner Koch <[email protected]> + + * DETAILS: Removed paragraph on gdbm usage. Notes that pipemode + is deprecated. + 2003-08-21 Werner Koch <[email protected]> * samplekeys.asc: Refreshed the keys. diff --git a/doc/DETAILS b/doc/DETAILS index 351647074..05af46dea 100644 --- a/doc/DETAILS +++ b/doc/DETAILS @@ -890,33 +890,13 @@ After the hash algorithm the 3 bytes "GNU" are used to make clear that these are extensions for GNU, the next bytes gives the GNU protection mode - 1000. Defined modes are: 1001 - do not store the secret part at all - - -Usage of gdbm files for keyrings -================================ - The key to store the keyblock is its fingerprint, other records - are used for secondary keys. Fingerprints are always 20 bytes - where 16 bit fingerprints are appended with zero. - The first byte of the key gives some information on the type of the - key. - 1 = key is a 20 bit fingerprint (16 bytes fpr are padded with zeroes) - data is the keyblock - 2 = key is the complete 8 byte keyid - data is a list of 20 byte fingerprints - 3 = key is the short 4 byte keyid - data is a list of 20 byte fingerprints - 4 = key is the email address - data is a list of 20 byte fingerprints - - Data is prepended with a type byte: - 1 = keyblock - 2 = list of 20 byte padded fingerprints - 3 = list of list fingerprints (but how to we key them?) - + 1002 - a stub to access smartcards (not used in 1.2.x) Pipemode ======== +NOTE: This is deprecated and will be removed in future versions. + This mode can be used to perform multiple operations with one call to gpg. It comes handy in cases where you have to verify a lot of signatures. Currently we support only detached signatures. This mode |