[summitto]

Until a better solution is brought forward, my team implemented a PGP packet library to make everyone's lives a little bit easier: https://github.com/summitto/pgp-packet-library

Using our library you can generate PGP keys using any key derivation mechanism for a large variety of key types! When using it right, this will greatly improve how you can generate and back up your keys!

[lvh]

Does this improve on gpg2 —list-packets for practical debugging/auditing of extant GPG setups, or is just useful for people who want to do alchemy on top of the OpenPGP packet format?

[summitto]

It just parses the packets with a relatively easy API, for those which want to do alchemy or which want to build tools for practical debugging/auditing purposes in C++ instead of using shell commands.