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kazu-yamamoto / pgpdump

A PGP packet visualizer
http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/pgpdump/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Documentation #7

Open macfreek opened 10 years ago

macfreek commented 10 years ago

I just discovered pgpdump, and I really appreciate the effort that the authors have put in here, so let me start with a big THANK YOU!

It really helps me to get to understand the DETAILS.

What I'm missing is some documentation. For example, in this output:

Old: Secret Subkey Packet(tag 7)(889 bytes)
    Ver 4 - new

I was confused about the "Old" (especially in conjuction with the "Ver 4 - new"). It would help me to understand what's old and what's new. I looked at the source code, but unfortunately, there were no comments in their either, leaving me to guess if the ver() routine referred to "version", "verbose" or something else.

kazu-yamamoto commented 10 years ago

Hi. If you can find "doc/pgformat.doc" in the source code of PGP 2.x, you can see the definitions of the old format and the new format.