Query the default key via command line?

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:32, immanuel.scholz at tu-dresden.de said:

> This triggers any password agent, doesn't it?

For encryption you don't need the secret key and ghus there won't be a
passphrase prompt.  With gpgsm it is a bit different as it will ask the
gpg-agent for the list of trusted root certifciates and that may -
depending on the configurration - trigger a Pinentry prompt.

> Really ugly, though... (and of course, the greps and cuts have to be
> done within the program to be usable under windows ;)

It is not that hard if you already have spawn and pipe functions ready.
gpgconf-comp.c has some code you could reuse.

> ~$ cat .gnupg/gpg.conf | grep ^default
> default-key 91723535

Ah right, my current gpg2 has this feature, whereas gpg 1.4.7 is missing
it.  BTW, the supported options can be listed using

  gpg --gpgconf-list

(gpgconf will only print options the backend programs announces)


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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