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Diffstat (limited to 'OpenKeychain/src/main/java/org/sufficientlysecure/keychain/operations/ImportExportOperation.java')
| -rw-r--r-- | OpenKeychain/src/main/java/org/sufficientlysecure/keychain/operations/ImportExportOperation.java | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/OpenKeychain/src/main/java/org/sufficientlysecure/keychain/operations/ImportExportOperation.java b/OpenKeychain/src/main/java/org/sufficientlysecure/keychain/operations/ImportExportOperation.java index e915c1852..6178b92d0 100644 --- a/OpenKeychain/src/main/java/org/sufficientlysecure/keychain/operations/ImportExportOperation.java +++ b/OpenKeychain/src/main/java/org/sufficientlysecure/keychain/operations/ImportExportOperation.java @@ -62,12 +62,19 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean; /** An operation class which implements high level import and export * operations. * - * This class receivs a source and/or destination of keys as input and performs + * This class receives a source and/or destination of keys as input and performs * all steps for this import or export. * * For the import operation, the only valid source is an Iterator of - * ParcelableKeyRing, each of which must contain exactly a single keyring - * encoded as bytes. + * ParcelableKeyRing, each of which must contain either a single + * keyring encoded as bytes, or a unique reference to a keyring + * on keyservers and/or keybase.io. + * It is important to note that public keys should generally be imported before + * secret keys, because some implementations (notably Symantec PGP Desktop) do + * not include self certificates for user ids in the secret keyring. The import + * method here will generally import keyrings in the order given by the + * iterator. so this should be ensured beforehand. + * @see org.sufficientlysecure.keychain.ui.adapter.ImportKeysAdapter#getSelectedEntries() * * For the export operation, the input consists of a set of key ids and * either the name of a file or an output uri to write to. |