[pycrypto] [Sks-devel] Help parsing OpenPGP packets and pubkey "normalization"

[Kim Minh Kaplan]

Jesus Cea writes:

> You can parse the pubkey bundle, extract the packet
> and sort them in lexicographic order, for instance, paying attention to
> hierachical considerations.
>
> I need to "normalize" the key to ensure that "HASH(pubkey bundle)" is
> the same everywhere, because that is what is feeded to the hasntree to
> syncronize.
>
> How does SKS solve this issue?.

If my reading is correct, SKS the kind of canonicalization you describe.
Keys are first parsed with parse_keystr then merged with merge_pkeys.
See the function merge at
http://code.google.com/p/sks-keyserver/source/browse/keyMerge.ml#223

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Kim Minh