13.7. The PGPData Element
The PGPData element appears as a child of KeyInfo. It conveys information that relates to PGP public key pairs and signatures on such keys. See Table 13-1 for its identifier. The PGPKeyID and PGPKeyPacket are prespecified children of PGPData.
A PGPKeyID value is a base64Binary sequence containing a standard PGP public key identifier, as defined in [RFC 2440]. The PGPKeyPacket contains a base-64 encoded Key Material Packet, also as defined in [RFC 2440]. Siblings from an external namespace can complement or extend these child element types. Alternatively, a PGP XML structure in an external namespace might replace PGPData as a child of KeyInfo. PGPData must contain one PGPKeyID and/or one PGPKeyPacket and may have zero ...
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