Re: import PGP keys into keyset

Peter Gutmann wrote
> Johannes Poehlmann <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Is ist possible to create a empty keyset and afterwards import one/serveral
>> PGP secret/public keys which are stored in memory buffer/s ?
>>
>> Is it possible to create a keyset without a correspondig file ?
> 
> No, because it needs some sort of backing store to make the results persistent
> (the whole point of a keyset is to store the results and make them
> persistent).  You could make it in-memory only if you want by adding your own
> filesystem (or whatever) layer via io/stream.c, it's currently targeted at
> memory streams, file streams, and network streams, you'd have to provide your
> own implementation of whatever it is you're trying to do.
> 
> Why are you trying to do this, and what are you actually trying to do?
> 
> Peter.

Hi Peter,

The root problem of my question was:

if
	I have a public or secret key exported from gnupg or
        pgp in binary format into a file,
how
        can I use this key with cryptlib ?



Johannes

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