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What is the binary export / import format used bygpg for public and private keys?

Is this related to Extract only the key(s) from GPG exported keypair? — user, Mar 26, 2014 at 15:12
@vonbrand: I spend yesterday reading the man pages, tutorials, articles & blog posts and made absolutely no progress. None of the docs mentioned the export format. Silly me for not going straight to the source. — Eero Aaltonen, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:20

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The format is defined in RfC 4880 (e.g. section 5.5 Key Material Packet).

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answered Mar 26, 2014 at 15:22

Hauke Laging

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Thank you! There are three leading bytes, but after that the version number, time and algorithm match exactly.
– Eero Aaltonen
Mar 27, 2014 at 10:16

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