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diff --git a/doc/DETAILS b/doc/DETAILS index 51a31a5b4..00aca2330 100644 --- a/doc/DETAILS +++ b/doc/DETAILS @@ -58,30 +58,38 @@ record. u = The key is ultimately trusted. This often means that the secret key is available, but any key may be marked as ultimately trusted. + 3. Field: length of key in bits. + 4. Field: Algorithm: 1 = RSA 16 = Elgamal (encrypt only) 17 = DSA (sometimes called DH, sign only) 20 = Elgamal (sign and encrypt - don't use them!) (for other id's see include/cipher.h) + 5. Field: KeyID + 6. Field: Creation Date (in UTC). For UID and UAT records, this is the self-signature date. Note that the dae is usally printed in seconds since epoch, however, we are migrating to an ISO 8601 format (e.g. "19660205T091500"). This is currently only relevant for X.509, A simple way to detect the format is be scannning for the 'T'. + 7. Field: Key or user ID/user attribute expiration date or empty if none. + 8. Field: Used for serial number in crt records (used to be the Local-ID). For UID and UAT records, this is a hash of the user ID contents used to represent that exact user ID. For trust signatures, this is the trust depth seperated by the trust value by a space. + 9. Field: Ownertrust (primary public keys only) This is a single letter, but be prepared that additional information may follow in some future versions. For trust signatures with a regular expression, this is the regular expression value, quoted as in field 10. + 10. Field: User-ID. The value is quoted like a C string to avoid control characters (the colon is quoted "\x3a"). This is not used with --fixed-list-mode in gpg. @@ -90,11 +98,13 @@ record. In gpgsm the issuer name comes here An FPR record stores the fingerprint here. The fingerprint of an revocation key is stored here. + 11. Field: Signature class. This is a 2 digit hexnumber followed by either the letter 'x' for an exportable signature or the letter 'l' for a local-only signature. The class byte of an revocation key is also given here, 'x' and 'l' ist used the same way. + 12. Field: Key capabilities: e = encrypt s = sign @@ -105,13 +115,15 @@ record. versions of the letters to denote the _usable_ capabilities of the entire key, and a potential letter 'D' to indicate a disabled key. -13. Field: Used in FPR records for S/MIME keys to store the fingerprint of - the issuer certificate. This is useful to build the - certificate path based on certificates stored in the local - keyDB; it is only filled if the issue certificate is - available. The advantage of using this value is that it is - guaranteed to have been been build by the same lookup - algorithm as gpgsm uses. + +13. Field: Used in FPR records for S/MIME keys to store the + fingerprint of the issuer certificate. This is useful to + build the certificate path based on certificates stored in + the local keyDB; it is only filled if the issuer + certificate is available. The root has been reached if + this is the same string as the fingerprint. The advantage + of using this value is that it is guaranteed to have been + been build by the same lookup algorithm as gpgsm uses. For "uid" recods this lists the preferences n the sameway the -edit menu does. For "sig" records, this is the fingerprint of the key that |