Reading key capabilities information before importing a key

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:48, branko at majic.rs said:

> Btw, is there any particular reason why the gpg2 --with-colons key.pub
> command does not list key capabilities?

It can't do that because it does not do any signature verification.  For
that we would need to look at the entire key and evaluate all packets.
--list-packets or giving a key on the command line is nothing more than
a simple dump of the packets without any signature verification.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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