Discrepancies in extracted photo-id images from dumps
Stefan Claas
sac at 300baud.de
Sun Jan 20 20:27:33 CET 2019
On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 19:22:10 +0100, Peter Lebbing wrote:
> On 20/01/2019 17:07, Peter Lebbing wrote:
> > I had a quick scan through the source code, but couldn't find it.
>
> Oops! I was looking at ancient code instead of the current code. That's
> why I didn't find it. It's a RIPEMD-160 hash of the attribute that
> contains the JPEG image, but I'm not 100% clear on the exact byte
> sequence. But it just hashes a representation of the image. You can see
> the hash in it's hexadecimal form in:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ gpg --with-colons -k KEYID
> [...]
> uat:n::::1497792746::91EC5F9C95BBB125AC85F65C06EF025712FCD036::1 2111:
> [...]
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> The 8th field (91EC...) is the UID hash, and is equal to the base32
> encoded string in the %U escape.
Thank you very much! I was able to hash a uid and it gave the proper
hash value, same as in the gpg listing. However i am still unable to
figure out the proper CLI sequence to get the same hash value and
base32 value of a given uat. :-( I guess i must try harder! :-)
Regards
Stefan
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