[pkg-gnupg-maint] Debian gnupg2 (2.1.11-7+exp1) experimental

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:28, noodles at earth.li said:

> the assumption that a valid keyring can be made by cat'ing individual
> binary keys together; this is done so each key is a separate object in

If the keys are "Transferable Public Keys" as specified by OpenPGP and
created for example with "gpg --export", cat'ing them is valid.  From
RFC4880:

   Transferable public-key packet sequences may be concatenated to allow
   transferring multiple public keys in one operation.

My remarks have been about the keyring.gpg files as use by gpg.  They
are indeed such sequences but that is the case only for older gpg
versions.  Since 2.1 the default has changed.  "gpg --import" in a new
GnuPG home will create the new default.

If there is a need to guarantee that *gpgv* will be able to work
directly with a sequence of "Transferable Public Keys", please open a
feature request at bugs.gnupg.org and describe why this makes sense.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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