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diff --git a/doc/DETAILS b/doc/DETAILS index 9581f3032..a3fe802a2 100644 --- a/doc/DETAILS +++ b/doc/DETAILS @@ -1504,6 +1504,14 @@ CREATE TABLE signatures ( - One octet with the length of the following serial number. - The serial number. Regardless of what the length octet indicates no more than 16 octets are stored. + - 3 :: The internal representation of a private key: For v4 keys we + first write 4 octets big endian length of the following + s-expression with the protected or unprotected private key; + for v5 keys this is not necessarily because that length + header is always there. The actual data are N octets of + s-expression. Any protection (including the real S2K) is + part of that data. Note that the public key aparemters are + repeated in th s-expression. Note that gpg stores the GNU S2K Extension Number internally as an S2K Specifier with an offset of 1000. |