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diff --git a/doc/keyformat.txt b/doc/keyformat.txt index 912e65dd9..755453e36 100644 --- a/doc/keyformat.txt +++ b/doc/keyformat.txt @@ -384,7 +384,17 @@ More items may be added to the list. ** OpenPGP Private Key Transfer Format -This format is used to transfer keys between gpg and gpg-agent. +This format is used to transfer keys between gpg and gpg-agent. It is +required so that gpg does not need to decrypt the secret key parms. +Instead gpg-agent decrypts and re-encrypts them. This is not ideal +becuase it moves protocol knowledge into gpg-agent (cvt-openpgp.c). A +better solution is to have a a separate helper tool to do the +conversion and re-encryption which can then be called by gpg-agent. +The use of s-expression here is also too complicated. + +With version 2.5.2x we dropped the need for this format iff no +protection was used. + (openpgp-private-key (version V) |