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format for storing private key in pgpdisk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Stay)
Wed Jun 2 18:23:41 1999
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:56:21 -0600
From: Mike Stay <staym@accessdata.com>
To: coderpunks@toad.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
PGPDisk does not conform to the OpenPGP draft. There are 24 bytes in
the header per passphrase that contain all the information you need to
mount the disk; I assume it's the encrytped private key plus a checksum.
Does anyone know how the passphrase is hashed and how the key is
encrypted?
--
Mike Stay
Cryptographer / Programmer
AccessData Corp.
mailto:staym@accessdata.com
