technical question about the public key

[David Shaw]

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On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:32:59AM -0600, Newton Hammet wrote:

>    My question is: is the information about which algorithm to use
> stored with the public key?  I suspect the answer is yes.  I am a
> newbie to this amazing product and am studying the formats of the
> files used, but am not clear enough on the details yet to say for
> certain.

Yes, algorithm info is stored with the public key.  The specifics are
in RFC 2440: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2440.html

David

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