Extracting information from a key

[Nico Schottelius]

Werner Koch [Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:56:04PM +0200]:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:09:22 +0200, Nico Schottelius said:
> 
> > - display the ID of it (readable by other programs)
> > - display E-Mail, Name
> > - display signatures on the key
> > - display other information (key type, length)
> 
> Some ietms are displayed with -i

Sounds good, but is there any promise the output won't change?

Using

scice% cat my-pgp-key | gpg -i                               
pub  1024D/8D0E27A4 2003-01-12 Nico Schottelius (the penguin gets you) <nico at schottelius.org>
uid                            Nico Schottelius (the penguin gets you) <nico at schottelius.net>
uid                            Nico Schottelius (business) <nico at schotteli.us>
uid                            Nico Schottelius (the penguin gets you) <schottelius at wdt.de>
sub  4096g/3976EA51 2003-01-12 [expires: 2007-01-11]
sub  4096R/C251BAE5 2004-05-08 [expires: 2007-05-08]

works fine, but when trying with --status-fd option (which I use
for communication between my program and gpg) the output is still the
same and using

scice% cat my-pgp-key | gpg -i --status-fd 3 3>&1 >/dev/null 

does not display any output
(`cat my-pgp-key | gpg -i --status-fd 3 3>&1` displays the same as
just using gpg -i).

`cat my-pgp-key | gpg -v` is as good/bad useable, as it's still 
human readable output, which is not bad, but which could perhaps change.

Using 

scice% cat my-pgp-key | gpg -v --status-fd 3 3>&1  | grep 'GNUPG:' 
gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux)
gpg: NOTE: signature key 401F6AA5 expired Wed Nov 13 16:03:36 2002 CET
[GNUPG:] KEYEXPIRED 1037199816
[GNUPG:] SIGEXPIRED deprecated-use-keyexpired-instead

I don't get any useful information.

Are there any plans to realize putting this information to the status-channel,
so other programs can simply extract this information?

Or do you (the developers) tell me that the output of gpg -v or gpg -i
will never change? If so, I'll be able to use the standard human output.

Thanks for any information again,

Nico

-- 
Keep it simple & stupid, use what's available.
Please use pgp encryption: 8D0E 27A4 is my id.
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