gpg --list-secret-keys does not skip revoked keys

[Daiki Ueno]

Daiki Ueno <ueno at unixuser.org> writes:

> BTW, I'm wondering if there is any reason why the validity field (Field
> 2 of --with-colons output) is not used for secret keys.  It might be
> useful for the libraries which call gpg internally (epg.el I mean :) to
> check if a key is usable.

Actually, it looks that GPGME ignores the validity when listing keys
with SECRET_ONLY flag.  Here is a sample program:

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I get:

$ ./list-key-validity A6CC6651 D1458906
084B0E86A6CC6651 (pub) revoked = 0, expired = 1
892F1451D1458906 (pub) revoked = 1, expired = 0
892F1451D1458906 (sec) revoked = 0, expired = 0

Maybe I'm missing some points of the OpenPGP concept.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno