Unable to issue subkey revocation

Andrew Gallagher andrewg at andrewg.com
Mon May 25 11:52:12 CEST 2026


On 25/05/2026 10:06, marqueandreprisal--- via Gnupg-users wrote:
> About being careful not to post the private key. I would be embarrassed 
> to accidentally upload my private key. I recall PGP 1 having a "keypair" 
> with a fingerprint of the private key and public key however in this new 
> gpg2 it appears the same fingerprint identifies both the seckey and 
> pubkey. Is the long ID actually a fingerprint of the pubkey even when 
> identifying the seckey within gpg2?
The fingerprint identifies the key pair, not the public or secret 
component separately, and is always calculated from the public key. If a 
key appears to have multiple fingerprints, it will be because there are 
one or more subkeys.

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