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.
A
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