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    packet/public_key
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            <div class="description">Implementation of the Key Material Packet (Tag 5,6,7,14)<br/>
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RFC4480 5.5:
A key material packet contains all the information about a public or
private key.  There are four variants of this packet type, and two
major versions.  Consequently, this section is complex.</div>
        
        
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    <h4 class="name" id="module:packet/public_key"><span class="type-signature"></span>new (require("packet/public_key"))<span class="signature">()</span><span class="type-signature"></span></h4>
    
    
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    <h4 class="name" id="algorithm"><span class="type-signature"></span>algorithm<span class="type-signature"> :<a href="module-enums.html#publicKey">module:enums.publicKey</a></span></h4>
    
    
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        Public key algorithm
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<span class="param-type"><a href="module-enums.html#publicKey">module:enums.publicKey</a></span>


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        Key creation date.
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        A list of multiprecision integers
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    <h4 class="name" id="getFingerprint"><span class="type-signature"></span>getFingerprint<span class="signature">()</span><span class="type-signature"> &rarr; {String}</span></h4>
    
    
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        Calculates the fingerprint of the key
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    A string containing the fingerprint
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    <h4 class="name" id="getKeyId"><span class="type-signature"></span>getKeyId<span class="signature">()</span><span class="type-signature"> &rarr; {String}</span></h4>
    
    
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        Calculates the key id of the key
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    A 8 byte key id
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        Internal Parser for public keys as specified in RFC 4880 section 
5.5.2 Public-Key Packet Formats
called by read_tag&lt;num&gt;
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    <h4 class="name" id="readPublicKey"><span class="type-signature"></span>readPublicKey<span class="signature">()</span><span class="type-signature"></span></h4>
    
    
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        Alias of read()
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        Same as write_private_key, but has less information because of 
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    {body: [string]OpenPGP packet body contents,
header: [string] OpenPGP packet header, string: [string] header+body}
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        Write an old version packet - it's used by some of the internal routines.
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    <h4 class="name" id="writePublicKey"><span class="type-signature"></span>writePublicKey<span class="signature">()</span><span class="type-signature"></span></h4>
    
    
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