Re: GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

[Brian Minton]

It seemed to me that all Kelly was trying to do was print the
fingerprint of a key from a file.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Ryan Sawhill r...@b19.org wrote:
 I disagree with your subject, and propose that you google for a tutorial
 since the man page clearly didn't work for you.

 (As far as I can tell, you were trying to import someone's pubkey, in which
 case you should simply have used: gpg --import FILE)


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Re: GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

[Sandeep Murthy]

I agree, this output is not user friendly at all, but did you try instead

   `$ gpg —edit-key key ID

which should start the `gpg` program (interactive environment
with the `gpg` prompt, and then you do

   `gpg fpr`

to display the fingerprint.

The problem with commands of this type

`gpg —option key file`,

is that it is calling on the key file on your computer, and this
is a static reference which could cause problems with file
permissions or if the file has been moved, renamed, corrupted,
damaged, or deleted.  It is better to use the key ID because
that doesn’t change whatever happens to your local key file
copy.

I reproduce the `gpg` session with my public key for my keybase.io
email below:

[srm@~]$gpg --edit-key 9EAB92B4
gpg (GnuPG/MacGPG2) 2.0.26; Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.


pub  4096R/9EAB92B4  created: 2014-12-30  expires: never   usage: SCEA
 trust: ultimate  validity: ultimate
sub  2048R/238026C5  created: 2014-12-30  expires: 2022-12-28  usage: S
sub  2048R/66C9185A  created: 2014-12-30  expires: 2022-12-28  usage: E
[ultimate] (1). keybase.io/sandeepmurthy sandeepmur...@keybase.io

gpg fpr
pub   4096R/9EAB92B4 2014-12-30 keybase.io/sandeepmurthy 
sandeepmur...@keybase.io
 Primary key fingerprint: AE7B 5571 64AF 1025 AF89  4180 6EA7 1DBC 9EAB 92B4

Sandeep Murthy
s.mur...@mykolab.com


 On 30 Dec 2014, at 09:49, Kelly Dean ke...@prtime.org wrote:
 
 # gpg key.gpg
 pub  2048D/7FBDEF9B 2014-09-24 GNU ELPA Signing Agent elpas...@elpa.gnu.org
 # gpg key.gpg --fingerprint
 usage: gpg [options] [filename]
 # gpg --fingerprint key.gpg
 gpg: error reading key: public key not found
 # man gpg
 # mkdir tmp
 # cp key.gpg tmp/pubring.gpg
 # gpg --fingerprint --homedir tmp/
 gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `tmp/'
 gpg: tmp//trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
 tmp//pubring.gpg
 
 pub   2048D/7FBDEF9B 2014-09-24 [expires: 2019-09-23]
  Key fingerprint = CA44 2C00 F917 74F1 7F59  D9B0 474F 0583 7FBD EF9B
 uid  GNU ELPA Signing Agent elpas...@elpa.gnu.org
 
 # rm tmp/ -r
 
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