Finding the key-id of an armoured key

[Timo Schulz]

On Fri Jan 10 2003; 18:29, Chris Hastie wrote:

> Many can be parsed from the output of "gpg --list-packets /path/to/file" 
> but I can see no reliable way of getting the key id or its digest 
> algorithm from this. The digest algorithm can probably be established 
> from a self-signature if I know what the key id is so that I can match 

What's wrong with gpg --export foo | gpg --with-colons. In your case
gpg --with-colons /path/to/file. Then the output looks like this:
pub:u:1024:17:ED4681C9BF3DF9B4:1999-04-29:::u:Timo Schulz <twoaday@freakmail.de>

It should be easy to parse the output due to the colon format and I guess
there is every information you need.


        Timo

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